Expedition 23

Expedition 23 (Template:Langx) was the 23rd long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 23 began with the Soyuz TMA-16 undocking on 18 March 2010. Shortly thereafter cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson arrived at the Space Station on Soyuz TMA-18 on 4 April 2010. The Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:04 EST on 2 April 2010.

Crew

Position	First part (March 2010 to April 2010)	Second part (April 2010 to June 2010)
Commander	Template:Flagicon Oleg Kotov, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Template:Flagicon Soichi Noguchi, JAXA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Template:Flagicon Timothy Creamer, NASA Only spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Template:Flagicon Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Template:Flagicon Tracy Caldwell Dyson, NASA Second spaceflight

Source

NASA

Backup crew

• Douglas H. Wheelock – Commander
• Anton Shkaplerov
• Satoshi Furukawa
• Mikhail Tyurin
• Aleksandr Samokutyayev
• Scott J. Kelly

Mission overview

Three Russian cosmonauts, two American and one Japanese astronauts made up the Expedition 23 crew. It was the first ISS crew to include three Russians at once. The Expedition 23 crew continued outfitting the newest modules of the nearly completed space station. The crew welcomed the shuttle flight STS-131 in April 2010. The Expedition 23 crew also saw the arrival of the Rasvet Russian docking module (MRM1) aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-132, which launched on 14 May 2010.

File:STS-131 ISS-23 Four Astronauts.jpg

The three astronauts of STS-131 and Tracy Caldwell (bottom left) of ISS Expedition 23, the first time four women being at the same time in space.

Gallery

• Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov and Korniyenko in front of their Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft.
  Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov and Korniyenko in front of their Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft.
• Skvortsov, Caldwell Dyson and Korniyenko wave farewell from the bottom of the Soyuz rocket.
  Skvortsov, Caldwell Dyson and Korniyenko wave farewell from the bottom of the Soyuz rocket.
• Soyuz TMA-18 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
  Soyuz TMA-18 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
• Expedition 23 crew members in the Destiny laboratory.
  Expedition 23 crew members in the Destiny laboratory.
• STS-131 & Expedition 23 group portrait.
  STS-131 & Expedition 23 group portrait.
• Expedition 23 lands.
  Expedition 23 lands.

External links

• NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
• Expedition 23 photography