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| Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
|---|---|
| Mission duration | 100 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes |
| Orbits completed | 3,248 [1] |
| Expedition | |
| Space station | International Space Station |
| Began | 24 June 2019, 23:25:33 UTC [2] [1] |
| Ended | 3 October 2019, 07:37:32 UTC [3] [1] |
| Arrived aboard | Soyuz MS-12 Soyuz MS-13 |
| Departed aboard | Soyuz MS-12 Soyuz MS-13 Soyuz MS-15 |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 6 |
| Members |
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| EVAs | 1 |
| EVA duration | 6 hours, 32 minutes |
| Promotional Poster Clockwise from top left: Ovchinin, Hague, Parmitano, Skvortsov, Morgan and Koch | |
Expedition 60 was the 60th Expedition to the International Space Station, which began on 24 June 2019 with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft. [2] The expedition was commanded by Aleksey Ovchinin, who transferred from Expedition 59 together with American flight engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch. [4] They were joined by Aleksandr Skvortsov, Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan, who arrived on Soyuz MS-13 on 20 July 2019. The expedition ended on 3 October 2019, when Soyuz MS-12 (carrying Ovchinin, Hague, and spaceflight participant Hazza Al Mansouri) undocked from the station and Koch, Skvortsov, Parmitano and Morgan transferred to Expedition 61. [5] [3]
During this expedition's final days, the station residents totaled 9 individuals temporarily upon the arrival of Soyuz MS-15, where for the first time since the departure of Soyuz TMA-16M in September 2015, the ISS crew exceeded the standard six. [6]
| Position | First part (24 June –20 July 2019) | Second part (20 July –3 October 2019) |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Second [a] spaceflight | |
| Flight engineer | First [a] spaceflight | |
| Flight engineer | First spaceflight | |
| Flight engineer | Off Station | Third spaceflight |
| Flight engineer | Off Station | Second spaceflight |
| Flight engineer | Off Station | First spaceflight |
When Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain return to Earth in late June, Ovchinin will take command of the space station, leading Expedition 60, and his crew will be increased to six-person strength in early July when Soyuz MS-13 and Skvortsov, Parmitano and Morgan arrive.