Expedition 59

Expedition 59
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Mission typeLong-duration expedition
Mission duration101 days, 22 hours, 24 minutes
Expedition
Space stationInternational 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 aboardSoyuz MS-11
Soyuz MS-12
Departed aboardSoyuz MS-11
Crew
Crew size6
Members
EVAs4
EVA duration25 hours, 55 minutes

Expedition 59 mission patch

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]

  1. ^ a b Moran, Noah (March 14, 2019). "Soyuz Docked to Space Station". NASA Blogs.
  2. ^ a b "NASA Astronaut Anne McClain, Crewmates Return from Space Station Mission". NASA. June 24, 2019.
  3. ^ Gebhardt, Chris (March 14, 2019). "Soyuz MS-12 docks with the Space Station – NASASpaceFlight.com". NASASpaceflight.com.
  4. ^ Strickland, Ashley (March 15, 2019). "New crew launches to space station". cnn.com. Cable News Network. Retrieved March 17, 2019. Hague and Ovchinin are getting a second chance after their original October 11 launch failed. Shortly after launch, there was an anomaly with the booster, and the launch ascent was aborted, resulting in a ballistic landing of the spacecraft, according to a NASA statement.

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