Expedition 33

For the video game, see Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.^[1]

Expedition 33

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	16 September 2012, 23:09 (2012-09-16UTC23:09Z) UTC[1]
Ended	18 November 2012 (2012-11-19)[1]
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 32/33: Sunita Williams Yuri Malenchenko Akihiko Hoshide Expedition 33/34: Kevin A. Ford Oleg Novitskiy Evgeny Tarelkin
Expedition 33 mission patch (l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford ISS expeditions ← Expedition 32 Expedition 34 →

Crew

Position	First Part (September–October 2012)	Second Part (October–November 2012)
Commander	Sunita Williams, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Yuri Malenchenko, RSA Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Kevin A. Ford, NASA Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Oleg Novitskiy, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA Only spaceflight

Source

NASA^[2][3][4]

CubeSats launched by Expedition 33 crew on 4 October 2012.

Notable experiments

The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on Earth from space.^[5]