Expedition 26

Expedition 26
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Mission typeLong-duration expedition
Expedition
Space stationInternational Space Station
Began26 November 2010, 04:46 (2010-11-26UTC04:46Z) UTC[1]
Ended16 March 2011, 08:54 (2011-03-16UTC08:55Z) UTC
Arrived aboardSoyuz TMA-01M
Soyuz TMA-20
Departed aboardSoyuz TMA-01M
Soyuz TMA-20
Crew
Crew size6
MembersExpedition 25/26:
Scott J. Kelly
Aleksandr Kaleri
Oleg Skripochka

Expedition 26/27:
Dmitri Kondratyev
Catherine Coleman
Paolo Nespoli
EVAs2

Expedition 26 mission patch

(l-r) Skripochka, Kaleri, Kondratyev, Nespoli, Coleman and Kelly

Expedition 26 was the 26th long-duration mission to the International Space Station. The expedition's first three crew members – one US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts – arrived at the station on board Soyuz TMA-01M on 10 October 2010. Expedition 26 officially began the following month on 26 November,[2] when half of the crew of the previous mission, Expedition 25, returned to Earth on board Soyuz TMA-19.[2] The rest of the Expedition 26 crew – one US astronaut, one Russian cosmonaut and one ESA astronaut – joined the trio already on board when their spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-20, docked with the station on 17 December 2010.

The commander of Expedition 25, Douglas Wheelock, handed over command of the station to Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly on 24 November 2010. The 26 crew was joined by the crew of STS-133 on 26 February 2011,[3] and was supplied by the ESA's Johannes Kepler unmanned resupply craft, which arrived on 24 February. Expedition 26 ended on 16 March 2011 with the departure of Soyuz TMA-01M.

  1. ^ Space.com – Soyuz Capsule Lands Safely With Space Station Crew (26 November 2010)
  2. ^ a b NASA HQ (2008). "NASA Assigns Space Station Crews, Updates Expedition Numbering". NASA. Archived from the original on 17 April 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
  3. ^ Mark Carreau, Mark (24 February 2011). "Discovery Soars on Final Mission". AviationWeek.com. Retrieved 11 November 2022.