Expedition 6
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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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 (2002-11-25UTC21:59Z) UTC |
Ended | 3 May 2003, 22:43 (2003-05-03UTC22:44Z) UTC |
Arrived aboard | STS-113 Space Shuttle Endeavour |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-1[1] |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Kenneth Bowersox Nikolai Budarin Donald Pettit |
EVAs | 2 |
EVA duration | 13 hours, 17 minutes |
Expedition 6 mission patch L-R: Donald Pettit, Ken Bowersox and Nikolai Budarin |
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