Expedition 6
| Mission type | ISS Expedition |
|---|---|
| Mission duration | 159 days, 44 minutes (at ISS) 161 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes, 38 seconds (launch to landing) |
| Distance travelled | ~107,824,795 kilometres (66,999,221 mi) |
| Orbits completed | 2,536 |
| Expedition | |
| Space Station | International Space Station |
| Began | 25 November 2002, 21:59 UTC |
| Ended | 3 May 2003, 22:43 UTC |
| Arrived aboard |
STS-113 Space Shuttle Endeavour |
| Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-1 |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members |
Kenneth Bowersox Nikolai Budarin Donald Pettit |
| EVAs | 2 |
| EVA duration | 13 hours, 17 minutes |
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 L-R: Donald Pettit , Ken Bowersox and Nikolai Budarin |
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Expedition 6 was the sixth expedition to the International Space Station (25 November 2002 - 3 May 2003). It was the last three-man crew to reside on the station until the arrival of STS-121. The crew performed two spacewalks in support of maintenance and assembly of the International Space Station.
The Station's sixth crew was launched to the Station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-113 in November 2002. The mission was expected to be a four-month mission that was to end in March 2003 when Atlantis STS-114 was to fly to the Station with the Expedition 7 crew. The Columbia disaster, which occurred during the mission on 1 Feb. 2003, and resulted in the indefinite suspension of shuttle flights, changed plans and the crew stayed on the station until May 2003. They returned to earth on Soyuz TMA-1 and a reduced Expedition 7 crew with just two members was delivered to the ISS on Soyuz TMA-2. The Space Shuttle was expected to be grounded for up to two years. Ongoing logistical support for the ISS would have to be carried out by Soyuz and Progress flights until the Space Shuttle returned to flight.
The sixth crew of the International Space Station returned to Earth just after 10 p.m. EDT on 3 May 2003 the first time U.S. astronauts have landed in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, though a U.S. space tourist, Dennis Tito, did so in 2001.
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