Expedition 59

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Expedition 59
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Mission type Long-duration expedition
Mission duration101 days, 22 hours, 24 minutes
Expedition
Space station International Space Station
Began15 March 2019, 01:01 (15 March 2019, 01:01)  UTC [1]
Ended24 June 2019, 23:25 (24 June 2019, 23:25) UTC [2]
Arrived aboard Soyuz MS-11
Soyuz MS-12
Departed aboard Soyuz MS-11
Crew
Crew size6
Members
EVAs 4
EVA duration25 hours, 55 minutes
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Expedition 59 mission patch
Expedition 59 crew portrait.jpg
From left: Saint-Jacques, McClain, Kononenko, Ovchinin, Hague and Koch

Expedition 59 was the 59th Expedition to the International Space Station. It started with the arrival of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft carrying Aleksey Ovchinin, Nick Hague and Christina Koch, [3] joining Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain who transferred from Expedition 58. The expedition formally began on March 15, 2019 (March 14 in the Americas). [1] Ovchinin and Hague were originally meant to fly to the ISS aboard Soyuz MS-10, but returned to Earth minutes after takeoff due to a contingency abort. [4] The expedition formally ended with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft carrying Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain on 24 June 2019; Ovchinin, Hague and Koch transferred to Expedition 60. [2]

Contents

Crew

PositionCrew member
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos
Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg David Saint-Jacques, CSA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer Flag of the United States.svg Anne McClain, NASA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer Flag of Russia.svg Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
Second [a] spaceflight
Flight Engineer Flag of the United States.svg Nick Hague, NASA
First [a] spaceflight
Flight Engineer Flag of the United States.svg Christina Koch, NASA
First spaceflight

Spacewalks

Uncrewed spaceflights to the ISS

Resupply missions that visited the International Space Station during Expedition 59:

Spacecraft
- ISS flight number
CountryMissionLauncherLaunch
(UTC)
Docked/Berthed
(UTC)
Undocked/Unberthed
(UTC)
Duration (Docked)Deorbit
Progress MS-11
- ISS 72P
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia LogisticsSoyuz-2.1a4 Apr 2019, 11:01:354 Apr 2019, 14:2229 Jul 2019, 10:44115d 20h 22m29 Jul 2019, 13:50
Cygnus NG-11
- CRS NG-11
Flag of the United States.svg  United States LogisticsAntares 23017 Apr 2019, 20:46:0719 Apr 2019, 09:286 Aug 2019, 16:15109d 6h 47m6 Dec 2019, 15:28
SpaceX CRS-17
- SpX-17
Flag of the United States.svg  United States LogisticsFalcon 94 May 2019, 06:486 May 2019, 13:333 Jun 2019, 16:0128d 2h 28m3 Jun 2019, 20:56

Mission summary

Researchers on Expedition 59 will conduct experimentation on tissue chips since the microgravity environment can replicate the effects of aging and disease. The expedition will also conduct experiments on regolith simulants, Earth's atmospheric carbon cycle, and Astrobee robots designed to conduct routine chores aboard the ISS. [10]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Not counting the aborted flight of Soyuz MS-10.

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