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International Space Station
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The International Space Station is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component launched into orbit in 1998, and the ISS is now the largest man-made body in space, the ISS consists of pressurised modules, external trusses, solar arrays, and other components. ISS components have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets, the ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields. The station is suited for the testing of systems and equipment required for missions to the Moon. The ISS maintains an orbit with an altitude of between 330 and 435 km by means of reboost manoeuvres using the engines of the Zvezda module or visiting spacecraft and it completes 15.54 orbits per day. The ISS is the space station to be inhabited by crews, following the Soviet and later Russian Salyut, Almaz. The station has continuously occupied for 16 years and 156 days since the arrival of Expedition 1 on 2 November 2000. This is the longest continuous presence in low Earth orbit. It has been visited by astronauts, cosmonauts and space tourists from 17 different nations, Soyuz has very limited downmass capability. The ISS programme is a joint project among five participating space agencies, NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, the ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements. The station is divided two sections, the Russian Orbital Segment and the United States Orbital Segment, which is shared by many nations. As of January 2014, the American portion of ISS is being funded until 2024, Roscosmos has endorsed the continued operation of ISS through 2024 but has proposed using elements of the Russian Orbital Segment to construct a new Russian space station called OPSEK. On 28 March 2015, Russian sources announced that Roscosmos and NASA had agreed to collaborate on the development of a replacement for the current ISS. NASA later issued a statement expressing thanks for Russias interest in future co-operation in space exploration. According to the original Memorandum of Understanding between NASA and Rosaviakosmos, the International Space Station was intended to be a laboratory, observatory and factory in low Earth orbit. It was also planned to provide transportation, maintenance, and act as a base for possible future missions to the Moon, Mars. In the 2010 United States National Space Policy, the ISS was given roles of serving commercial, diplomatic. The ISS provides a platform to conduct scientific research, the ISS simplifies individual experiments by eliminating the need for separate rocket launches and research staff
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Soyuz TMA-18
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Soyuz TMA-18 was a 2010 Soyuz flight to the International Space Station. TMA-18 was the 105th manned flight of a Soyuz spacecraft since the first manned flight in 1967, spacecraft commander Skvortsov occupied the center seat of the Soyuz TMA-18 with Kornienko on his left and Caldwell Dyson on the right. The launch was perfect and the only experienced communications difficulties shortly after launch. The communication problem made it impossible for the Russian mission control officials to communicate with the crew until after they reached the preliminary orbit, however, a live on-board television camera clearly showed the crew was safe. After 9 minutes, the Soyuz spacecraft settled into an orbit of 143 miles by 118 miles. It also deployed antennas and solar arrays for power generation, the spacecraft spent the following two days orbiting the Earth gradually closing in on the ISS. Prior to the systems testing and integration of the rocket. In February 2010 specialists at the RSC-Energia and Yuzhny Space Center tested the Kurs docking support system, autonomous tests of the Soyuz TMA-18 crew vehicle systems were also successfully completed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the integrated tests of the rocket commenced at site 254. Filling station was prepared for further tanking of the Soyuz propulsion system by propellant components ad pressurized gases, in early March, containment tests on Soyuz TMA-18 were carried out at the vacuum chamber facility. Specialists from the TSKB-Progress in Samara and Yuzhny Space Center started assembling and testing of the Soyuz-FG rocket, integration of the second stage and pneumatic tests of the first stages units were performed on 16 March. The Soyuz TMA-18 primary and backup crews arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 21 March and they arrived in two Tu-134 air planes. The Soyuz tanking was completed on 23 March and the spacecraft was returned to site 254, on 31 March the Soyuz FG rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft was rolled out from the integration and test facility and was erected at launch pad 1. On 4 April 2010, three ahead of schedule, Soyuz TMA-18 successfully docked to the Poisk module on the ISS at 5,25 UTC. Shortly after the initial contact automatic closing of Soyuz & MRM2 port hooks, as part of docking preparations, earlier attitude control authority had been handed over to the Russian Motion Control System at approximately 3,10 UTC. The control was returned to US CMG control at approximately 6,50 UTC, for the docking, the Russian thrusters were disabled during Soyuz volume pressurization and clamp installation and afterwards returned to active attitude control. Before hatch opening, the crew performed checks of the Soyuz modules. They then removed their Sokol suits, and Kornienko set them, after about 1 hour 45 minutes spent in Soyuz on pre-transfer activities, hatches were opened at 7,21 UTC and the crew transferred to the ISS. A welcome ceremony for the new arrivals followed hatch opening with family members, Skvortsov also installed the quick disconnect clamps of the docking & internal transfer mechanism to firm the joint
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Soyuz TMA-19
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Soyuz TMA-19 was a manned spaceflight to the International Space Station and is part of the Soyuz programme. It was launched June 15,2010 carrying three members of the Expedition 24 crew to the International Space Station, who remained aboard the station for six months. TMA-19 was the 106th manned flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, since the first mission which was launched in 1967, the spacecraft remained docked to the space station for the remainder of Expedition 24, and for Expedition 25, to serve as an emergency escape vehicle. It undocked from ISS and landed in Kazakhstan on the November 26,2010 and it was the 100th mission to be conducted as part of the International Space Station programme since assembly began in 1998. The Soyuz TMA-19 crew was confirmed by NASA on November 21,2008, the mission Commander is Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, who is making his third spaceflight. The other two members are Shannon Walker and Douglas H. Wheelock of the United States National Aeronautics. TMA-19 is Wheelocks second spaceflight, and Walkers first, Soyuz TMA-19 was launched by a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket flying from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch occurred successfully on June 15,2010, with the rocket lifting off at 21,35 UTC, after its separation from the last stage of the Soyuz-FG rocket, Moscow Mission Control Center began controlling the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft. Nine minutes into the ascent, the spacecraft settled into an orbit of 200.16 by 259.16 km with the inclination 51.62 degrees toward the Equator. The Soyuz spacecraft successfully deployed the solar arrays for power generation, telemetry data received from the Soyuz confirmed that the spacecraft was performing nominally. Prior to launch, assembly of the rocket and spacecraft had been underway for several months, the Soyuz-FG rocket arrived at Baikonur on March 11,2010, along with a Soyuz-U which was slated to launch Progress M-06M. The spacecraft itself was shipped from Korolyov on April 16,2010, upon delivery, the spacecraft was moved to Site 254. On June 11,2010, final inspections of the spacecraft were conducted, the next day, the upper composite was integrated with the upper stage of the rocket that was to launch it, and subsequently the launch escape system. This assembly work took place at Site 112 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, once this was complete, the upper stage was attached to the remainder of the rocket in the MIK. A State Commission met of June 12 to approve rollout, which was authorised, rollout to the launch pad began at 01,00 UTC on June 13,2010, with the rocket departing the MIK propelled by a locomotive. Rollout lasted around two hours, with the rocket travelling 2 kilometres from the MIK to the launch pad, the winner and runner-up in the patch design competition were present to observe the rollout. Rollout operations were completed by 05,00 UTC, when the rocket was erected on the launch pad, Soyuz TMA-19 docked with the International Space Station on June 17 2010at 22,25 UTC. It docked with the aft port of the Zvezda module, ahead of docking, the ISS handed over attitude control to the Russian Orbital Segment at 19,00 UTC, and at 19,17 maneuvered to provide an optimum attitude for docking
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Aleksandr Skvortsov (cosmonaut)
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov is a Russian cosmonaut. He has had two spaceflights, which were long-duration missions aboard the International Space Station and his first spaceflight took place from April to September 2010, and was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-18. He arrived at the station part way through Expedition 23, of which Oleg Kotov was the Commander, when Expedition 24 began in June, Skvortsov became Commander. Skvortsov is married to Elena Georgievna Skvortsova and they have one daughter, Anna Aleksandrovna Skvortsova, born in 1990. His father is Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, born in 1942 and his mother is Nina Ivanovna Skvortsova, skvortsovs hobbies include diving, soccer, badminton, fishing, hunting, and tourism. He is also an underwater diving and powered paragliding instructor. Skvortsov graduated from the Stavropol Air Force Pilot and Navigator School as pilot-engineer in 1987, currently he is working towards a law degree at the Russian Academy of Civil Service. Skvortsov flew L-39, MiG-23 and Su-27 aircraft as a pilot, senior pilot, Skvortsov has logged around 1000 hours of flight time. He is a Class 1 Air Force pilot, a qualified diver, Skvortsov completed basic space training from January 1998 to November 1999. He was qualified as a test-cosmonaut in November,1999, starting January 2000 he was in International Space Station advanced training. In March 2008, Skvortsov was assigned to the Expedition 21/22 backup crew as a flight engineer, Skvortsov served as a Flight Engineer for the International Space Station on Expedition 23. He traveled to the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-18 along with fellow Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko and he celebrated his 44 birthday in space aboard the ISS on May 6,2010. Skvortsov was the commander of the ISS Expedition 24, at the traditional Change of Command ceremony held on May 31,2010, aboard the ISS Expedition 23 commander Oleg Kotov handed over his duties to Skvortsov. Following a normal descent, the Soyuz crew landed at 5,23 a. m, GMT near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on September 25. After returning to Earth and sharing his experiences to an audience, Skvorsov said I love spicy food, I finished off all the spicy ketchup stock on the ISS and shocked everyone by making and eating wasabi sandwiches. Thats my fuel, as good as a rockets, Skvortsov returned to space aboard Soyuz TMA-12M, along with Oleg Artemyev and Steven Swanson, as a flight engineer on the Expedition 39 crew. The mission launched on March 25,2014, and landed on September 11,2014 and this article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Mikhail Kornienko
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Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko is a Russian cosmonaut. Kornienko served as an engineer on the International Space Station during Expedition 23/24 and was selected along with Scott Kelly for a year long mission aboard the ISS. Kornienko began the long mission in March 2015, blasting off on Soyuz TMA-16M Kornienko was born in Syzran, Kuybyshev Oblast. He is married to Irina Kornienko, a physician and his father, Boris G. Kornienko, a military pilot, perished in an Mi-6 helicopter crash in October 1965. His mother, Faina M. Kornienko born in 1931 is retired, Kornienko graduated from secondary school No. From 1981 to 1987 he studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute named after S. Ordzhonikidze, upon graduation from school in 1977, he worked at a radio equipment plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia. In May 1978, Kornienko was called to service in the Soviet Army and he served in the paratrooper forces in Kirovobad, Azerbaidzhan, the USSR. In May 1980, he completed his service with the rank of a junior sergeant. Kornienko worked for the Moscow Militia from 1980–1986, at the same time he attended the evening Department of Moscow Aviation Institute. Upon graduation in 1987 from the institute, he was qualified as a liquid propellant rocket engines mechanical engineer and he resigned from the Militia in 1986 and entered a mechanical engineering design bureau. During 1986 to 1991 Kornienko worked in the Baikonur Launch Facility as an equipment specialist. He worked for companies between late 1991 to early 1995. From October 1991 to December 1992 he was the OOO Transvostok Technical, from January 1993 to April 1995 he was the LLC ESTE General Director. In October 1995, Kornienko started working at the Energia Rocket/Space Corporation as an engineer and he was assigned with developing technical documentation for cosmonaut primary and backup crew tests and training. He took part in EVA tests in simulated zero-gravity at the hydrolab, in the process of this work he acquired experience in organizing extravehicular repair/refurbishment and assembly activities on the Mir orbital station. He also directly participated in testing the Energia RSC production on the testing ground. On February 24,1998, Kornienko was selected as a test cosmonaut candidate and, in 1999, following training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Since 1999, he has trained in the International Space Station group and he served on the ISS Expedition 8 backup crew as a flight engineer
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Tracy Caldwell Dyson
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Tracy Caldwell Dyson is an American chemist and NASA astronaut. Caldwell Dyson was a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Endeavour flight STS-118 in August 2007 and she was part of the Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station between April 4,2010 and September 25,2010. She has completed three spacewalks, logging more than 22 hrs of EVA including work to replace a malfunctioning coolant pump, during that time she also worked as an electrician/inside wireman for her father’s electrical contracting company doing commercial and light industrial type construction. At the University of California, Davis, Caldwell Dyson taught general chemistry laboratory and she also designed and built peripheral components for a variable temperature, ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy system. In 1997, Caldwell Dyson received the Camille and Henry Drefus Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Science to study chemistry at the University of California. In addition, she developed methods of chemical ionization for spectral interpretation of trace compounds, Caldwell Dyson has published and presented her work in numerous papers at technical conferences and in scientific journals. Selected by NASA in June 1998, Caldwell Dyson reported for training in August 1998, completion of this training and evaluation qualified her for flight assignment as a mission specialist. During ISS Expeditions 4 through 6, Caldwell Dyson also served as an ISS spacecraft communicator inside Mission Control, Caldwell Dyson also served as Lead CAPCOM for Expedition 11. Caldwell Dyson was assigned as Mission Specialist #1 on this flight, during the mission Endeavours crew successfully added another truss segment, a new gyroscope and external spare parts platform to the International Space Station. A new system that enables docked shuttles to draw power from the station to extend visits to the outpost was activated successfully. A total of four spacewalks were performed by three crew members, Endeavour carried some 5,000 pounds of equipment and supplies to the station and returned to Earth with some 4,000 pounds of hardware and no longer needed equipment. Traveling 5.3 million miles in space, the STS-118 mission was completed in 12 days,17 hours,55 minutes and 34 seconds, finally, during the flight of STS-118, Caldwell Dyson celebrated her 38th birthday in space. On April 4,2010, Caldwell Dyson joined the Expedition 23 crew aboard ISS and she lifted off on April 2,2010 from the Baikonur spaceport aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule. After 176 days duty as part of the Expedition 24 crew, together with commander Aleksandr Skvortsov and flight engineer Mikhail Korniyenko, Dyson landed in Kazakhstan on September 25,2010. In a television interview on the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, as Tracy Dyson, she is the host of a series on NASA TV called StationLife, which focuses on facets of life aboard the International Space Station. She appeared on Episode 3 of MasterChef Junior Season 4, on March 21,2017, Dyson stood behind President Trump as he signed a bill for NASA to send humans to Mars in 2030s and receive $19.5 billion in 2018 funding. Dyson and fellow NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy presented Trump with a flight jacket during the ceremony. Her recreational interests include running, weight training, hiking, softball, basketball, as an undergraduate, she competed in intercollegiate athletics on the CSUF Titans track team as both a sprinter and long jumper
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Fyodor Yurchikhin
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Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurchikhin, is a Russian cosmonaut of Greek descent, engineer and RSC Energia test-pilot who has flown on four spaceflights. His first spaceflight was a 10-day Space Shuttle mission STS-112 and his second was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as a Flight Engineer for Expedition 15, for this mission he was launched in the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft. He has undertaken two further long-duration stays aboard the ISS, as a member of Expedition 24 /25. For this mission he was launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19 and he served as Soyuz Commander for his fourth mission aboard Soyuz TMA-09M, as Flight Engineer for Expedition 36 and ISS Commander for Expedition 37. Yurchikhin was born in Batumi, Adjar ASSR, Georgian SSR on 3 January 1959 to Pontic Greek parents Nikolai Fyodorovich Yurchikhin, Yurchikhin is married to Larisa Anatolievna Yurchikhina and has two daughters. His hobbies include collecting stamps and space logos, sports, history of cosmonautics and he also enjoys reading history, science fiction and the classics. After graduation from school in Batumi in 1976, he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute named after Sergey Ordzhonikidze. He finished studying in 1983, and is qualified as a mechanical engineer, in 2001, he graduated from the Moscow Service State University with a Ph. D. in economics. Yurchikhin was one of five cosmonauts selected to raise the Russian flag at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, after graduating from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute, Yurchikhin worked at the Russian Space Corporation Energia from September 1983 until August 1997. In August 1997, he was enrolled in the RSC Energia cosmonaut detachment as a cosmonaut-candidate, from January 1998 to November 1999, he completed his basic training course. In November 1999, he was qualified as a test cosmonaut, in January 2000, he started training in the test-cosmonaut group for the International Space Station program. Yurchikhin was a crewmember of the International Space Station assembly mission STS-112 conducted using Space Shuttle Atlantis, during the mission the shuttle crew conducted joint operations with the Expedition 5 by delivering and installing the S1 Truss. Three spacewalks were required to outfit and activate the new component, the crew also transferred cargo between the two vehicles and used the shuttles thruster jets during two maneuvers to raise the stations orbit. STS-112 was the first shuttle mission to use a camera on the External Tank, providing a view of the launch to flight controllers. The STS-112 mission was accomplished in 170 orbits, traveling 4.5 million miles in 10 days,19 hours, in 2007, he became a member of the Expedition 15 on the ISS. His flight began on April 7, when he launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft, together with Oleg Kotov, Yurchikhin was aboard when Simonyi gave a live telebridge conversation on Tuesday, April 17,2007. He served as the commander of the Expedition 15 mission, on October 21, he returned to Earth inside the Soyuz TMA-10 capsule after spending 196 days and 17 hours in space. The TMA-10 spacecraft undocked from the ISS at 07,14 UTC on October 21, during atmospheric re-entry, the spacecraft transitioned to a ballistic reentry, resulting in it landing west of Arkalyk, approximately 340 km northwest of the intended Kazakhstan landing site
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Shannon Walker
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Shannon Walker is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut, whose first space mission was Expedition 24 on the International Space Station with take-off on 15 June 2010. She is married to a fellow NASA astronaut, the Australian-born Andy Thomas and she is a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and The Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots. Walker began her career with the Rockwell Space Operations Company at the Johnson Space Center in 1987 as a robotics flight controller for the Space Shuttle Program. She worked several Space Shuttle missions as a controller in the Mission Control Center, including STS-27, STS-32, STS-51, STS-56, STS-60, STS-61. From 1990 to 1993, Walker took a leave of absence from the Johnson Space Center to attend graduate school, in 1995 she joined the NASA civil service and began working in the International Space Station Program at the Johnson Space Center. Dr. Walker worked in the area robotics integration, working with the ISS International Partners in the design, in 1998 she joined the ISS Mission Evaluation Room as a manager for coordinating on-orbit problem resolution for the International Space Station. In 1999, Walker moved to Moscow, Russia to work with the Russian Space Agency and she returned to Houston in 2000 after a year in Russia and became the technical lead for the ISS MER as well as the Deputy Manager of the On-Orbit Engineering Office. Most recently, prior to selection as a candidate, Walker was the Acting Manager of the On-Orbit Engineering Office. Walker was selected by NASA as an Astronaut Candidate in May 2004, completion of this initial training qualifies her for various technical assignments within the Astronaut Office and future flight assignment as a mission specialist. In early September, she had visited Johnston Middle School, along with Parker, there, via TV, she spoke about dreams and education. She came back in early May, Walker was assigned as the backup Commander for ISS Expedition 22 and as a Flight Engineer on the crew of Expedition 25. Walker was launched to space from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 June 2010 in Soyuz TMA-19 and she returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-19 on November 25,2010. On September 19,2011, NASA announced that Walker would command the NEEMO15 undersea exploration mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory from October 17–30,2011, delayed by stormy weather and high seas, the mission began on October 20,2011. On the afternoon of October 21, Walker and her crew officially became aquanauts, NEEMO15 ended early on October 26 due to the approach of Hurricane Rina. On March 2017, NASA announced that Walker will train as backup for Joseph Acaba for Expedition 53/54 to the International Space Station, walkers recreational interests include cooking, soccer, running, weight training, flying, camping, and travel. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics, NASA Astronaut Bio, Shannon Walker Spacefacts biography of Shannon Walker
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Douglas H. Wheelock
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Douglas Harry Wheels Wheelock is an American engineer and astronaut. He has flown in space twice, logging 178 days on the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, on July 12,2011, Wheelock announced that he would be returning to active duty with the United States Army in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Douglas Wheelock was born in Binghamton, New York to Olin, in a pre-flight interview, Wheelock stated that he was inspired to become an astronaut at an early age. He also stated that a turning point in his life was the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969. In 1978 Wheelock graduated from Windsor Central High School in Windsor and he earned a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992. Wheelock spent four years as a cadet at West Point, graduating in the class of 1983 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science, after graduation he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Armys Infantry Branch and entered flight school the next year. In September 1984, then Lieutenant Wheelock graduated at the top of his class and was designated an Army Aviator. He was later assigned to the Aviation Directorate of Combat Developments as an Advanced Weapons Research and Development Engineer. Wheelock was selected as a member of Class 104 at the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School and his flight testing was focused in the areas of tactical reconnaissance and surveillance systems in the OH-58D, UH-60, RU-21 and C-23 aircraft. He served as Division Chief for fixed-wing testing of airborne signal and imagery intelligence systems in support of the National Program Office for Intelligence, while on active duty, Wheelock received a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1992. In August 1996 Wheelock was assigned to the Johnson Space Center as a Space Shuttle integration test engineer and his technical duties involved engineering liaison for launch and landing operations of the Space Shuttle. S. Army Command and General Staff College, in July 2011, Wheelock left for a tour of duty in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He is scheduled to return in fall 2011, a dual-rated Master Army Aviator Astronaut, he has logged over 2,500 flight hours in 43 different rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. In August 1998 Wheelock reported for NASA Astronaut Candidate Training and he worked extensively with the Energia Aerospace Company in Moscow, Russia, developing and verifying dual-language procedures for ISS crews. Wheelock led joint U. S. /Russian teams to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to oversee bench reviews, inventory, loading and launch of the first four unmanned ISS resupply capsules. He was the contact for all crew needs, coordination, planning and interactions. In August 2002, Wheelock was assigned as a Spacecraft Communicator in the Mission Control Center in Houston, in this role, he was the primary communication link between crews on orbit and the ground support team in the Control Center. His work as a CAPCOM culminated in his assignment as the lead CAPCOM for the ISS Expedition 8 mission, in July 2004, Wheelock served as an aquanaut during the NEEMO6 mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory, living and working underwater for ten days
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Expedition 23
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Expedition 23 was the 23rd long-duration mission to the International Space Station. Expedition 23 began with the Soyuz TMA-16 undocking on 18 March 2010, shortly thereafter cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson arrived at the Space Station on Soyuz TMA-18 on 4 April 2010. The Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00,04 EST on 2 April 2010 and it was the first ISS crew to include three Russians at once. The Expedition 23 crew continued outfitting the newest modules of the nearly completed space station, the crew welcomed the shuttle flight STS-131 in April 2010. The Expedition 23 crew also saw the arrival of the Rasvet Russian docking module aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-132 and this article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASAs Space Station Expeditions page Expedition 23 photography
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
