Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
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Operator | NASA / Roscosmos |
Mission duration | 164 days, 6 hours and 7 minutes |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 17 October 2021, 01:14 UTC [1] |
Ended | 30 March 2022, 07:21:03 [1] |
Arrived aboard | Soyuz MS-18 SpaceX Crew-2 Soyuz MS-19 SpaceX Crew-3 Soyuz MS-21 |
Departed aboard | SpaceX Crew-2 Soyuz MS-19 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7-10 |
Members |
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EVAs | 4 |
EVA duration | 25 hours 31 minutes |
Expedition 66 mission patch, resembling that of U.S. Route 66 Expedition 66 crew portrait |
Expedition 66 was the 66th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The mission began after the departure of Soyuz MS-18 on 17 October 2021. [2] It was commanded by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the fourth European astronaut and first French astronaut to command the ISS [3] until 8 November 2021 when Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who arrived aboard Soyuz MS-19, took over his command. [4]
Pesquet was transported to the ISS on SpaceX Crew-2 in April 2021, joined by NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. [5] Crew-2 from Expedition 65 extended their tour of duty on the ISS to become part of Expedition 66, [6] along with Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who both launched on Soyuz MS-18 and returned to Earth on Soyuz MS-19, following their extended mission. Russian cosmonaut Shkaplerov launched on Soyuz MS-19, along with two participants in the joint film project between Roscosmos and Channel One, The Challenge: film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild.
SpaceX Crew-3, launched 10 November 2021, carried NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer to the ISS. [7] At the end of Expedition 66, they remained on the ISS as part of Expedition 67 while Dubrov and Vande Hei returned to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-19. [8] However, continued international collaboration has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia. [9]
Flight | Astronaut | First part (17 October –8 November 2021) | Second part (8–11 November 2021) [10] | Third part (11 November 2021 –18 March 2022) | Fourth part (18 –30 March 2022) |
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Soyuz MS-19 | Anton Shkaplerov, Roscosmos Fourth and last spaceflight | Flight Engineer | Commander | ||
Pyotr Dubrov, Roscosmos First spaceflight | Flight Engineer | ||||
Mark T. Vande Hei, NASA Second spaceflight | Flight Engineer | ||||
SpaceX Crew-2 | Shane Kimbrough, NASA Third and last spaceflight | Flight Engineer | Off Station | ||
Megan McArthur, NASA Second spaceflight | Flight Engineer | Off Station | |||
Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA Third spaceflight | Flight Engineer | Off Station | |||
Thomas Pesquet, ESA Second spaceflight | Commander | Off Station | |||
SpaceX Crew-3 | Raja Chari, NASA First spaceflight | Off Station | Flight Engineer | ||
Thomas Marshburn, NASA Third and last spaceflight | Off Station | Flight Engineer | |||
Matthias Maurer, ESA First spaceflight | Off Station | Flight Engineer | |||
Kayla Barron, NASA First spaceflight | Off Station | Flight Engineer | |||
Soyuz MS-21 | Oleg Artemyev, Roscosmos Third spaceflight | Off Station | Flight Engineer | ||
Denis Matveev, Roscosmos Only spaceflight | Off Station | Flight Engineer | |||
Sergey Korsakov, Roscosmos First spaceflight | Off Station | Flight Engineer |
Akihiko Hoshide is a Japanese engineer, JAXA astronaut, and former commander of the International Space Station. On August 30, 2012, Hoshide became the third Japanese astronaut to walk in space.
Oleg Viktorovich Novitsky is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian Air Force who logged over 700 hours of flight time and was awarded for bravery. He is currently serving as a Russian cosmonaut with Roscosmos and has participated in multiple expeditions, during which he has spent over 545 days in space.
Sergey Nikolayevich Ryzhikov, lieutenant colonel of Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006. He is a veteran of two long duration space flights to the ISS.
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Thomas Gautier Pesquet is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, European Space Agency astronaut, actor, musician, and writer. Pesquet was selected by ESA as a candidate in May 2009, and he successfully completed his basic training in November 2010. From November 2016 to June 2017, Pesquet was part of Expedition 50 and Expedition 51 as a flight engineer. Pesquet returned to space in April 2021 on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon for a second six-month stay on the ISS.
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