Expedition 33 (ISS)
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station
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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.[1]
Mission typeLong-duration expedition
Space stationInternational Space Station
Began16 September 2012, 23:09 UTC[1]
Ended18 November 2012[1]
Promotional poster | |
| Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
|---|---|
| Expedition | |
| Space station | International Space Station |
| Began | 16 September 2012, 23:09 UTC[1] |
| Ended | 18 November 2012[1] |
| 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 |
 Expedition 33 mission patch  (l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford | |
Crew
| Position | First Part (September–October 2012) |
Second Part (October–November 2012) |
|---|---|---|
| Commander |  Sunita Williams, NASASecond spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 1 |  Yuri Malenchenko, RSAFifth spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 2 |  Akihiko Hoshide, JAXASecond spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 3 | Kevin A. Ford, NASA Second and last spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 4 | Oleg Novitskiy, RSA First spaceflight | |
| Flight Engineer 5 | Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA Only spaceflight | |
Notable experiments
The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on Earth from space.[5]
