ISS Achieving Milestones

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6TH FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE NUMBER 06

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NEWS UPDATE ISS Achieving Milestones

By STINGER NSW

Commander: Luca Parmitano The first station crew was selected for Expedition 1 aboard the International Space Expeditions 36/37 – 167 days + 60/61 – 201 days Station (ISS) nearly 20 years ago to which humans have lived and worked continuously EVA's x 6 – 33 hours 9 minutes in space ever since.

Flight Engineer 1: Aleksandr Skvortsov Today marks the end of Expedition 61 which officially began on October 3, 2019, with Expeditions 23/24 – 175 days + 39/40 – 170 days + 60/61 – 201 days the departure of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft. The expedition was commanded by ESA EVA's x 2 – 12 hours 34 minutes astronaut Luca Parmitano, who became the third European and first Italian astronaut to command the ISS. Luca Parmitano transferred from Expedition 60 together with Flight Engineer 2: Andrew R. Morgan American flight engineers Andrew R. Morgan & Christina Koch and Russian flight Current Expedition 60/61/62 – 201 days as of February 6, 2020 engineer Aleksandr Skvortsov. They were joined by Russian flight engineer Oleg EVA's x 7 – 45 hours 48 minutes Skripochka and American flight engineer Jessica Meir, who arrived on the Soyuz MS-15 on September 25, 2019. Flight Engineer 3: Christina Koch Expedition 59/60/61 – 328 days This expedition marks the highest number of spacewalks in a single expedition, in total EVA's x 6 – 42 hours 15 minutes nine spacewalks completing 61 hours of EVA’s to replace ageing station batteries with new lithium-ion batteries and carry out repairs on the $2 Billion Alpha Magnetic Flight Engineer 4: Oleg Skripochka Spectrometer. Expeditions 25/26 – 172 days + 47/48 – 189 days On October 18, 2019, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir became the first women to Current Expedition 61/62 – 134 days as of February 6, 2020 participate in an all-female spacewalk together. EVA's x 3 – 16 hours 40 minutes Extending over three Expeditions, Christina Koch accomplished the longest single Flight Engineer 5: Jessica Meir spaceflight ever by a female astronaut or cosmonaut at 328 days. Current Expedition 61/ 62 – 134 days as of February 6, 2020 EVA's x 3 – 21 hours 44 minutes Expedition 61 officially ended on February 6, 2020, when Soyuz MS-13 carrying Luca Parmitano, Christina Koch and Aleksandr Skvortsov undocked from the station with Oleg Skripochka, Jessica Meir and Andrew R. Morgan transferring to Expedition 62.

Visiting Vehicle Launches, Arrivals and Departures September 25, 2019 | Soyuz MS-15 Launch & Docking (Expedition 61/62) November 1, 2019 | HTV-8 Release (Harmony Module) November 2, 2019 | Cygnus CRS-12 Launch November 4, 2019 | Cygnus CRS-12 Capture & Docking (Unity Module) November 29, 2019 | Progress 73 Undocking (Pirs Port) December 5, 2019 | SpaceX CRS-19 Launch December 6, 2019 | Progress 74 Launch December 8, 2019 | SpaceX CRS-19 Capture & Docking (Harmony Module) December 9, 2019 | Progress 74 Docking (Pirs Port) January 7, 2020 | SpaceX CRS-19 Release & Landing (Harmony Module) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) January 31, 2020 | Cygnus CRS-12 Release (Unity Module) 9 x Space Walks, totalling 61 Hours 0 Minutes February 6, 2020 | Soyuz MS-13 Departure & Landing (Expedition 60/61)