Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Expedition | |
Space Station | International Space Station |
Began | 16 September 2012, 23:09 | UTC
Ended | 18 November 2012 |
Arrived aboard |
Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M |
Departed aboard |
Soyuz TMA-05M Soyuz TMA-06M |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members |
Expedition 32/33: Sunita Williams Yuri Malenchenko Akihiko Hoshide Expedition 33/34: Kevin A. Ford Oleg Novitskiy Evgeny Tarelkin |
(l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford |
Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.
The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on earth from space.