Expedition 57

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ISS Expedition 57
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Mission typeISS Expedition
Mission duration76d 17h 43m
Expedition
Space station International Space Station
Began4 October 2018 UTC
Ended20 December 2018 UTC
Arrived aboard Soyuz MS-09
Soyuz MS-10 (failed)
Soyuz MS-11
Departed aboard Soyuz MS-09
Soyuz MS-11
Crew
Crew size3 (first part)
6 (second part)
MembersExpedition 56/57:
Alexander Gerst
Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor
Sergey Prokopyev
EVAs 1
EVA duration7 hours 45 minutes
ISS Expedition 57 Patch.svg
Expedition 57 mission patch
Expedition 57 crew portrait (new).jpg
(l-r) Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Commander Alexander Gerst from the European Space Agency and Sergei Prokopev of Roscosmos. 

Expedition 57 was the 57th expedition to the International Space Station, which began on October 4, 2018, upon the departure of Soyuz MS-08.

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History

Soyuz MS-09 crew, Alexander Gerst, Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, and Sergey Prokopyev, since June 2018 aboard the ISS, were expected to be joined by Aleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague in October 2018. [1] The latter two crew members boarded Soyuz MS-10 on October 11, 2018, but the launch was aborted mid-flight due to a booster failure; the crew landed safely after a ballistic descent. [2] [3]

The impact of the Soyuz MS-10 failure and subsequent investigation on the ISS crew schedule was not initially clear. [4] The Expedition 57 initial crew needed to depart by mid-December 2018 in Soyuz MS-09 due to the limited on-orbit lifespan of "about 200 days" of the Soyuz capsule, or no later than early January 2019 allowing for a small margin on the lifespan. NASA would have attempted to avoid de-crewing the ISS, commanding the station from the ground is feasible if necessary. [5]

On 23 October 2018, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that Soyuz flights to the ISS were expected to resume in December 2018. [6] The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft commanded by cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, carrying him and two flight engineers, Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques, was launched on December 3, 2018, marking the 100th orbital launch of the year; [7] the Expedition 57 initial crew departed on December 20 and Expedition 58 started as a three-person increment. [8] [9]

Crew

Position(First part)
October 4 – December 3, 2018		(Second part)
December 3–20, 2018
Commander Flag of Germany.svg Alexander Gerst, ESA
Second spaceflight [10]
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of the United States.svg Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, NASA
First spaceflight [11]
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Prokopyev, RSA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3  Flag of Russia.svg Oleg Kononenko, RSA
Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4  Flag of the United States.svg Anne McClain, NASA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg David Saint-Jacques, CSA
First spaceflight

Originally NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps was assigned as flight engineer for Expeditions 56 and 57, becoming the first African American space station crew member [12] and the 15th African American to fly in space, but on January 16, 2018, NASA announced that Epps had been replaced by her backup Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor. [13] On January 20, Epps' brother Henry posted a statement on Facebook, since deleted, that "My sister Dr. Jeannette Epps has been fighting against oppressive racism and misogyny in NASA and now they are holding her back and allowing a Caucasian Astronaut to take her place!" Jeanette Epps stated that she could not comment on her brother's post or the reason why she was pulled off the mission, but did state that she has no medical condition or family problem preventing her from flying, and that her training had been successful. The Washington Post stated that "Last-minute crew changes are not unusual at NASA." [14] [15] [16]

Cosmonaut Nikolai Tikhonov was slated to make his first spaceflight on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, but was removed from the crew due to delays in launching the Russian Nauka module. This is the second time that Tikhonov has been removed from an ISS crew for such reason. [17] [18]

Spacewalks

EVA #SpacewalkersStart (UTC)End (UTC)Duration
Expedition 57
EVA 1*		 Flag of Russia.svg Oleg Kononenko

Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Prokopyev

December 11, 2018

15:59

December 11, 2018
23:44		7 hours 45 minutes
The cosmonauts went outside to install a plug and thermal insulation on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft which was damaged by a powertool causing an air leak. The cosmonauts gave Soyuz MS-09 a clean bill of health before they patched it up clearing the vessel for entry on December 20, 2018. Get ahead task included swapping experiments on the Rassvet module. [19]

*denotes spacewalks performed from the Pirs docking compartment in Russian Orlan suits.

Uncrewed spaceflights to the ISS

Resupply missions that visited the International Space Station during Expedition 57:

Spacecraft
– ISS flight number		CountryMissionLauncherLaunch
(UTC)		Docked/Berthed
(UTC) † 		Undocked/Unberthed
(UTC)		Duration (Docked)Deorbit
Progress MS-10
– ISS 71P		Flag of Russia.svg  Russia LogisticsSoyuz-FG16 Nov 2018, 18:14:0818 Nov 2018, 19:284 Jun 2019, 08:40197d 13h 12m4 Jun 2019, 08:40
Cygnus NG-10
– CRS NG-10E		Flag of the United States.svg  United States LogisticsAntares 23017 Nov 2018, 09:01:3119 Nov 2018, 12:318 Feb 2019, 16:1681d 3h 45mFeb. 25, 2019, 09:05
SpaceX CRS-16
– CRS SpX-16		Flag of the United States.svg  United States Logistics Falcon 9 Block 5 5 Dec 2018, 18:168 Dec 2018, 15:3613 Jan 2019, 23:3336d 7h 57m14 Jan 2019

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