Expedition 59
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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]
Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Mission duration | 101d 22h 24m |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 15 March 2019 01:01 UTC[1] |
Ended | 24 June 2019 23:25 UTC[2] |
Arrived aboard | Soyuz MS-11 Soyuz MS-12 |
Departed aboard | Soyuz MS-11 |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members |
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EVAs | 4 |
EVA duration | 25h 55min |
Expedition 59 mission patch (l-r) Saint-Jacques, McClain, Kononenko, Ovchinin, Hague and Koch |