Expedition 22

Expedition 22

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Mission duration	167 days (at ISS) 169 days (launch to landing)
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	1 December 2009 (2009-12)
Ended	18 March 2010 (2010-03-19)
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz TMA-17
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz TMA-17
Crew
Crew size	5
Members	Expedition 21/22: Jeffrey N. Williams Maksim Surayev Expedition 22/23: Oleg Kotov Soichi Noguchi Timothy Creamer
EVAs	1
EVA duration	5 hours, 44 minutes
Expedition 22 mission patch (l-r) Creamer, Williams, Surayev, Kotov and Noguchi ISS expeditions

Expedition 22 was the twenty-second long duration crew flight to the International Space Station (ISS). This expedition began on 1 December 2009 when the Expedition 21 crew departed. For a period of three weeks, there were only two crew members; it was the first time that had occurred since STS-114. Commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Maksim Surayev were joined by the rest of their crew on 22 December 2009, making the Expedition 22 a crew of five.^[1]

The expedition had ended when Soyuz TMA-16 undocked on 18 March 2010, and was immediately followed by the start of Expedition 23.

Crew

Position	First Part (1 – 22 December 2009)	Second Part (22 December 2009 – 18 March 2010)
Commander	Jeffrey N. Williams, NASA Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Maksim Surayev, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2		Oleg Kotov, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Soichi Noguchi, JAXA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Timothy Creamer, NASA Only spaceflight

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Backup crew

• Shannon Walker – Commander
• Aleksandr Skvortsov
• Douglas H. Wheelock
• Anton Shkaplerov
• Satoshi Furukawa

Spacewalks

EVA[3]	Spacewalkers[4]	Start (UTC)	End (UTC)	Duration
EVA 1	Oleg Kotov Maksim Surayev	14 January 2010 10:05	14 January 2010 15:49	5 hours, 44 minutes
	Prepared the Poisk module for future dockings.[5] Spacewalk was performed using Orlan spacesuits.

Gallery

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  Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi.
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  The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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  The Soyuz TMA-17 rocket lifts off headed for the ISS on Expedition 22.
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  Kotov used a digital still camera to take this self-portrait during a January 2010 space-walk.
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  The Expedition 22 crew landed on Thursday, 18 March 2010.

See also

• 2010 in spaceflight
• List of human spaceflights
• List of International Space Station spacewalks
• List of spacewalks 2000–2014

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

1. "NASA – Expedition 22 Crew Launches From Kazakhstan". Nasa.gov. 21 December 2009. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
2. NASA HQ (2008). "NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering". NASA. Archived from the original on 17 April 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
3. NASA. "STS-131 Mission Summary (PDF)" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
4. NASA. "STS-131 Mission Information". Retrieved 5 February 2010.
5. "Crew Completes First Expedition 22 Spacewalk". NASA. 15 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.

External links

• NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
• Expedition 22 Photography