Expedition 60
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Expedition 60 was the 60th Expedition to the International Space Station, which began on 24 June 2019 with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft.[2] The expedition was commanded by Aleksey Ovchinin, who transferred from Expedition 59 together with American flight engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch.[4] They were joined by Aleksandr Skvortsov, Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan, who arrived on Soyuz MS-13 on 20 July 2019. The expedition ended on 3 October 2019, when Soyuz MS-12 (carrying Ovchinin, Hague, and spaceflight participant Hazza Al Mansouri) undocked from the station and Koch, Skvortsov, Parmitano and Morgan transferred to Expedition 61.[5][3]
Mission duration | 100d 8h 11m |
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Orbits completed | 3248[1] |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 24 June 2019 23:25:33 UTC[2][1] |
Ended | 3 October 2019 07:37:32 UTC[3][1] |
Arrived aboard | Soyuz MS-12 Soyuz MS-13 |
Departed aboard | Soyuz MS-12 Soyuz MS-13 Soyuz MS-15 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members |
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EVAs | 1 |
EVA duration | 6h32m |
Promotional Poster Clockwise from top right: Nick Hague of NASA and Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency), Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, NASA astronauts Drew Morgan and Christina Koch and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. |
During this expedition' final days, the station residents totaled 9 individuals temporarily upon the arrival of Soyuz MS-15, where for the first time since the departure of Soyuz TMA-16M in September 2015 the ISS crew exceeded the standard six.[6]