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Oct. 14, 2009 – ISS Progress 35 Launches
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Nov. 15, 2009 – STS-129 Departs
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Expedition 21
Image above: Pictured on the front row of this Expedition 21 crew portrait (from the left) is Flight Engineer Nicole Stott, Commander Frank De Winne and Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko. Pictured on the back row (from the left) are Flight Engineers Maxim Suraev, Jeffrey Williams and Robert Thirsk. Image credit: NASA› View hi-res
Crew Profiles
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Commander Frank De Winne
European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne served as commander for Expedition 21 and flight engineer for Expedition 20. De Winne spent nine days aboard the station in 2002 as a member of the Odissea mission.
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Flight Engineer Jeffrey N. Williams
Astronaut Jeffrey Williams served as a flight engineer for Expedition 21 and commander of Expedition 22. He previously resided on the space station for six months in 2006 as a member of the Expedition 13 crew.
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Flight Engineer Robert Thirsk
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 21 and 20. In 1996, Dr. Thirsk flew as a payload specialist astronaut aboard space shuttle mission STS-78, the Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission.
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Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko
Cosmonaut Roman Romanenko served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 21 and 20. He was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office in December 1997. In November 1999, he was qualified as a test cosmonaut.
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Flight Engineer Nicole P. Stott
Astronaut Nicole Stott served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 21 and 20 after launching on STS-128. In April 2006 she was a crew member on the NEEMO 9 mission where she lived and worked with a 6-person crew for 18 days on the Aquarius undersea research habitat.
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Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev
Cosmonaut Maxim Suraev served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 21 and 22. He was selected as a test-cosmonaut candidate of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Office in December 1997.
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Spaceflight Participant Guy Laliberté
Canadian Guy Laliberté flew to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-16 and returned on Soyuz TMA-14 under a commercial agreement between the Russian Federal Space Agency and Space Adventures, Ltd.
Overview
Expedition 21 began with the Soyuz TMA-14 undocking in October 2009. Two new crew members arrived on the Soyuz TMA-16 for the handover before the previous crew departed.
Soyuz TMA-15
Crew: Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne, Robert Thirsk
Launch:
› May 27, 2009, 6:34 a.m. EDT
Docking:
› May 29, 2009, 8:34 a.m. EDT
Landing:
› Dec. 1, 2009, 2:15 a.m. EST
Soyuz TMA-16
Crew: Jeff Williams, Maxim Suraev, Guy Laliberté
Launch:
› Sept. 30, 2009, 3:14 a.m. EDT
Docking:
› Oct. 2, 2009, 4:37 a.m. EDT
Landing:
› March 18, 2010, 7:24 a.m. EDT
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Astronaut Jeff Williams, aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, is taking your questions. Post a video response with your question at ReelNASA on YouTube. Williams' schedule will not allow him to answer many questions, but he will attempt to answer a few each week.
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