Expedition 14
| Mission type | ISS Expedition |
|---|---|
| Mission duration | 7 months, 3 days (at ISS) 215 days 8 hours (López-Alegría/Tyurin) (launch to landing) |
| Orbits completed | 3,401 (López-Alegría/Tyurin) |
| Expedition | |
| Space Station | International Space Station |
| Began | 18 September 2006, 04:09 UTC |
| Ended | 21 April 2007, 12:31 UTC |
| Arrived aboard |
Soyuz TMA-9 Reiter: STS-121 Space Shuttle Discovery Williams STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery |
| Departed aboard |
Soyuz TMA-9 Reiter: STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery Williams STS-117 Space Shuttle Atlantis |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members |
Michael López-Alegría Mikhail Tyurin Thomas Reiter* (until December) Sunita Williams† (from December) * - transferred from Expedition 13 † - transferred to Expedition 15 |
| EVAs | 5 |
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 Sunita Williams, Mikhail Tyurin and Michael López-Alegría, mission commander of Expedition 14. |
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Expedition 14 was the 14th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Commander Michael López-Alegría, and flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 September 2006, 04:09 UTC, aboard Soyuz TMA-9. They joined Thomas Reiter, who had arrived at the ISS on 6 July 2006 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-121. In December 2006, Discovery mission STS-116 brought Sunita Williams to replace Reiter as the third member of Expedition 14. On 21 April 2007, López-Alegría and Tyurin returned to Earth aboard TMA-9. Landing occurred at 12:31:30 UTC.
The first crew of Expedition 14 launched, alongside spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari, in Soyuz TMA-9, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz Rocket at 04:10 UTC on 18 September 2006. Cosmonaut Tyurin piloted the capsule in for a perfect docking two days later at 05:21 UTC on 20 September, with the hatch to the ISS opening at 08:30 UTC. The members of Expedition 14 (along with Ansari) were greeted warmly by Expedition 13 crew Pavel Vinogradov & Jeff Williams, and also by the third member of their own expedition, ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, who officially switched from a member of Expedition 13 to membership of Expedition 14 when his soyuz seat-liner was switched.
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