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Home , Expedition 23, Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kotov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson

CONTINUING ISS RESEARCH The Expedition 23 crew will continue research Expedition 23 crew will be visited by two aboard the International Space Station while Shuttle missions. welcoming two crews bringing During April the STS-131 crew of the Shuttle new equipment being added to the orbiting Discovery delivered a Multi-Purpose Logistics outpost. Module filled with science experiment racks Russian Cosmonaut and Expedition 23 that was transferred to laboratories on the Commander along with American ISS. Also on board was the Lightweight Multi- Flight Engineers Timothy (T.J.) Creamer Purpose Equipment Support Structure Carrier. and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency In May the crew of Atlantis will bring the launched to the Integrated Cargo Carrier and the Russian Mini Space Station on Dec. 20, 2009, from the Research Module 1 during STS-132. MRM 1 in Kazakhstan aboard is a pressurized component with workplaces the Russian Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft. for scientific equipment. It will also be used The Space Station as seen after the undocking Traffic begins to pick up at the Space Station for cargo storage and it has a docking port of the Shuttle Endeavour on STS-130. with the arrival of Soyuz TMA-18 on April for the ISS. 4, 2010. Russian Cosmonauts Alexander The research conducted during Expedition Skvortsov and , as well 23 will take advantage of the microgravity as U.S. Astronaut conditions 220 miles above the Earth’s launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome The Space Station as seen after the undocking of surface across a wide variety of fields, the Shuttle Endeavour on STS-130. two days earlier. including human life sciences, biological During three months together, the six-member science, human physiology, physical and materials science and Earth and space science. CREW PROFILE Nearly 150 experiments are currently underway on the Station, and more than 400 Alexander Skvortsov (Colonel, Russian Air Force) studies have been conducted over the past Flight Engineer & Soyuz Commander Born: May 6, 1966 in Schelkovo, Moscow Region. nine years. These experiments are already Education: Graduated from the Stavropol Air Force Pilot and Navigator School as leading to advances in the fight against a pilot-engineer in 1987 and from the Military Red Banner Air Defense Academy in food poisoning, new methods for delivering 1997 medicine to cancer cells and the development Experience: Selected as a cosmonaut in 1999, Expedition 23 will be his first space of more capable engines and materials for use Alexander Skvortsov flight. on Earth and in space. Kotov will hand over command of the Station Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Ph.D. to Skvortsov, and then he, Creamer and Flight Engineer Noguchi will depart in their Soyuz, with Born: August 14, 1969 in Arcadia, California. landing in Kazakhstan scheduled for June Education: Received a bachelors degree in Chemistry from the California State Tracy Caldwell Dyson is preparing to be lowered 2, 2010. The next expedition crew members University at Fullerton in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of into the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory California at Davis in 1997. near the Johnson Space Center. The simulation is are scheduled to arrive at the Station later Tracy Caldwell training for work outside the Space Station. that month. Dyson Experience: Selected as an astronaut in 1998, Caldwell-Dyson was a mission specialist on STS-118 in August 2007. For more information contact: Mikhail Kornienko United Space Alliance United Space Alliance Flight Engineer Communications and Public Relations Communications and Public Relations Born: April 15, 1960 in Syzran, Kuibyshev region, Russia. M/C USH-100B M/C USK-558 Education: From 1981-1987 studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute 1150 Gemini Avenue 1102 John Glenn Boulevard Experience: Selected as a cosmonaut in 1991, Expedition 23 is his first trip into Houston, Texas 77058 Titusville, Florida 32780 Mikhail Kornienko space. www.unitedspacealliance.com