ISS: Expedition 34

Crew & expedition duration:

Exp 34 crew path

Complet crew

Backup Crew

Mission details

• Expedition 33 crewmembers Suni Williams, Yuriy Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide undocked from the Rassvet module aboard Soyuz TMA-05M at 2226 UTC Nov 18, 2012 and fired the deorbit engines at 0059 UTC Nov 19.
• Expedition 34 began at 2226 UTC on Nov 18, 2012 with commander Kevin Ford and flight engineers FE-1 Oleg Novitskiy and FE-2 Yevgeniy Tarelkin. Their ferry ship, Soyuz TMA-06M, is docked at the Poisk module.
• Soyuz TMA-07M (spacecraft 704A, flight ISS 33S) went up on Dec 19, 2012 with crew Roman Romanenko of Russia, Chris Hadfield of Canada, and Tom Marshburn of the USA. Initial orbit was 194 x 236 km x 51.6 deg. The spaceship docked with the Rassvet module at 1409 UTC on Dec 21, 2012.
• Ferry ship Soyuz TMA-06M is docked at the Poisk module; Soyuz TMA-07M is at Rassvet; cargo ship Progress M-16M is at the Pirs module and Progress M-17M is at the Zvezda aft port.
• On Jan 16-24, 2013 the Dextre SPDM robot `hand' was used with the Robotic Refuelling Mission hardware on the ELC-4 platform to demonstrate remotely controlled refuelling of a simulated satellite.
• Progress M-16M undocked from the Pirs module at 1316 UTC on Feb 9, 2013 and was deorbited over the Pacific Ocean at 1619 UTC with impact of its debris at 1705 UTC.
• The Progress M-18M cargo ship was launched on Feb 11, 2013 at 1441 UTC and docked with the Pirs module at 2034 UTC the same day. Soyuz TMA-07M is at Rassvet; cargo ship Progress M-17M is at the Zvezda aft port and Dragon CRS-2 is at the nadir Harmony port.
• Dragon arrived 350m from the Station at 0840 UTC on Mar 3, 2013 and approached along the R-bar (ISS-Earth vector) to a distance of 10m. It was captured by the SSRMS at 1031 UTC and bolted to the nadir CBM port of the Harmony module by 1356 UTC.
• On Mar 6 the station SSRMS arm unloaded the HRS Grapple Fixture package from the Dragon trunk and berthed it on the Mobile Base System. Meanwhile, the crew unloaded all the cargo in the pressurized section.
• On Mar 13 the Station crew held a change-of-command ceremony as Chris Hadfield became Commander. Expedition 35 formally began, with Hadfield, Romanenko and Marshburn, when Soyuz TMA-06M undocked at 2343 UTC on Mar 15 carrying Ford, Tarelkin and Novitskiy.
  
  

  With their scheduled stay onboard the International Space Station headed toward its final days, three members of the Expedition 34 crew pose for some photographs in their Sokol suits in the U.S. Laboratory or Destiny. From left are NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, commander, with Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin. Credit: NASA

  
  

External links:

• Wikipedia: Exp. descriptions
• Spacefacts: Exp. description

Astrophilately covers:

Docking and undocking TMA-06 cancel Moscou, ISS board cancel, signed by the TMA-06M and TMA-07M crew