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Expedition 26

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Mission type Long-duration expedition
Expedition
Space station International Space Station
Began 26 November 2010, 04:46 (2010-11-26UTC04:46Z) UTC[1]
Ended 16 March 2011, 08:54 (2011-03-16UTC08:55Z) UTC
Arrived aboard Soyuz TMA-01MSoyuz TMA-20
Departed aboard Soyuz TMA-01MSoyuz TMA-20
Crew
Crew size 6
Members Expedition 25/26:Scott J. KellyAleksandr KaleriOleg SkripochkaExpedition 26/27:Dmitri KondratyevCatherine ColemanPaolo Nespoli
EVAs 2
Expedition 26 mission patch (l-r) Skripochka, Kaleri, Kondratyev, Nespoli, Coleman and KellyISS expeditions← Expedition 25Expedition 27 →

Expedition 26 was the 26th long-duration mission to the International Space Station. The expedition's first three crew members – one US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts – arrived at the station on board Soyuz TMA-01M on 10 October 2010. Expedition 26 officially began the following month on 26 November,[2] when half of the crew of the previous mission, Expedition 25, returned to Earth on board Soyuz TMA-19.[2] The rest of the Expedition 26 crew – one US astronaut, one Russian cosmonaut and one ESA astronaut – joined the trio already on board when their spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-20, docked with the station on 17 December 2010.

The commander of Expedition 25, Douglas Wheelock, handed over command of the station to Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly on 24 November 2010. The 26 crew was joined by the crew of STS-133 on 26 February 2011,[3] and was supplied by the ESA's Johannes Kepler unmanned resupply craft, which arrived on 24 February. Expedition 26 ended on 16 March 2011 with the departure of Soyuz TMA-01M.

Position First part(November 2010) Second part(December 2010 to March 2011)[4][5]
Commander United States Scott J. Kelly, NASAThird spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Aleksandr Kaleri, RSAFifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Russia Oleg Skripochka, RSAFirst spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3 Russia Dmitri Kondratyev, RSAOnly spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4 United States Catherine Coleman, NASAThird and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5 Italy Paolo Nespoli, ESASecond spaceflight

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NASA[2][6]

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli's mission to the space station was named MagISStra. The name combines the word magistra, meaning "female teacher" in Latin, with the acronym "ISS", as suggested by Antonella Pezzani of Italy.[7]

Two Russian spacewalks were scheduled for Expedition 26.[8] The first, Russian EVA-27, was conducted Friday, 21 January 2011.[9] The second spacewalk, Russian EVA-28, was conducted on the date of 16 February 2011. Cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Dmitri Kondratyev conducted both spacewalks.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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  9. ^ "Cosmonauts Perform 27th Russian Space Station Spacewalk". Archived from the original on 28 December 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2011.