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ISS EO-12
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1 October 2005 03:54 GMT. Landing Date: 2006-04-08 23:48:00. Flight Time: 189.83 days. Flight Up: Soyuz TMA-7. Flight Back: Soyuz TMA-7. Crew: Tokarev, McArthur. Program: ISS. Six-month long-term resident crew of the International Space Station. The flight program consisted of the following main activities:
- Launch of two ISS EO-12 crewmembers and one space tourist (EP-9) aboard Soyuz TMA-7 in flight 11S;
- Docking of the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft to the Docking Compartment (PIRS);
- Operational support for undocking of Soyuz TMA-6 from the FGB (Zarya) module;
- Relocation of the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft from the PIRS to the FGB (Zarya) modules;
- Loading and undocking of Progress M-54;
- Operational support for docking and unloading of Progress M-55;
- Performance of extravehicular activites: one US egress (EVA) on the ISS USOS (Unity) and one Russian egress (EVA) on the ISS RS;
- Support of the Space Station functionality;
- Performance of the science and application research program and experiments SVS, Kristallizator, Relaksatsia, Uragan, Ekon, Plasma-MKS, Sprut-MBI, Cardio-ODNT, Profilaktika, Pulse, Gematologia, Pilot, Biorisk, Akvarium, Rastenia-2, Intercellular interaction, Statokonia, Regeneratsia, Prognos, Matryoshka-R, Diatomeya, Volny, Konjugatsia, Biodegradatsia, Bioekologia, Bioemulsia, Meteoroid, Vector-T, Izgib, Plasma crystal, Identifikatsia, Skorpion, RadioSkaf, Sreda, Infotekh, Kromka, as well as contracted commercial activities (GTS, GCF-JAXA, Rokviss, JAXA-3DPC, SCN, Cardiocog-4, NOA, Immuno);
- Implementation of space tourist's Gregory Olsen's program onboard the ISS, as well as ESA life science experiments (Sample, Muscle, Mop) during EP-9;
- Crew handover to Increment ISS EO-13 and return of ISS EO-12 crewmembers on Soyuz TMA-7.
ISS EO-12 Chronology - 2005 Sep 10 - International Space Station Status Report #05-44
A 2½-ton delivery arrived at the back door of the International Space Station today as an unpiloted Russian cargo ship linked up to the Zvezda module's docking port at 9:42 a.m. CDT, filled with supplies for Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips and spare parts for repair to some Station systems. The crewmembers were inside Zvezda monitoring the automated docking as ISS flew ...more...
- 2005 Sep 30 - International Space Station Status Report #05-46
Preparations for arrival of the next crew of the space station, scientific activities and maintenance highlighted this week's activities aboard the orbiting laboratory. Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John Phillips also ...more...
- 2005 Sep 30 - International Space Station Status Report #05-47
The 12th crew of the international space station rocketed into space tonight, beginning a six-month mission. A Soyuz spacecraft carried Expedition 12 Commander and NASA Science Officer William ...more...
- 2005 Oct 1 - Soyuz TMA-7 Crew: Tokarev, McArthur, Olsen. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Payload: Soyuz TMA s/n 217. Mass: 7,250 kg (15,980 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz FG. Duration: 189.83 days. Perigee: 347 km (215 mi). Apogee: 348 km (216 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.50 min.
Launch delayed from September 27. Soyuz TMA-7 docked with the International Space Station at 05:27 GMT on 3 October, bringing the long duration EO-12 crew of (McArthur, Commander; Tokarev, Flight Engineer) and space tourist Olsen. McArthur, Tokarev and Pontes (brought to the station aboard Soyuz TMA-8) transferred to TMA-7 on April 8, 2006, closing the hatches at 17:15 GMT and undocking from Zvezda at 20:28 GMT, leaving Vinogradov and Williams from Soyuz TMA-8 as the Expedition 13 in charge of the station. Soyuz TMA-7 fired its engines at 22:58 GMT for the deorbit burn and landed in Kazakhstan at 23:48 GMT.
- 2005 Oct 3 - International Space Station Status Report #05-48
New residents arrived at the international space station this morning to begin a six-month mission that will carry them through the new year into next spring. With Expedition 12 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Valery Tokarev at the controls, ...more...
- 2005 Oct 7 - International Space Station Status Report #05-49
Following the docking of the Soyuz spacecraft early Monday morning, the space station is now home to a new crew. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, joined by spaceflight participant Gregory Olsen, spent the week on board with the Expedition 11 crew performing handover and transfer activities. McArthur, Tokarev and Olsen arrived at the space station at 12:27 a.m. CDT Monday, ...more...
- 2005 Oct 10 - International Space Station Status Report #05-50
After traveling 75 million miles during six months on the international space station, Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA ISS Science Officer John Phillips returned to Earth today. With them was American Greg Olsen, who spent eight days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency. The Soyuz spacecraft with Krikalev, Phillips and Olsen landed in north-central Kazakhstan, ...more...
- 2005 Oct 14 - International Space Station Status Report #05-51
Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev are spending their first few days alone on the international space station following the safe return home of their predecessors Monday. McArthur and Tokarev, veterans of shorter space shuttle flights, began familiarizing ...more...
- 2005 Oct 21 - International Space Station Status Report #05-52
Growing increasingly familiar with their microgravity home and laboratory in space, the 12th international space station crew turned its attention to experiment work, began preparations for the first space station-based spacewalk using U.S. suits since 2003 and captured spectacular images and video of the latest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin, Hurricane Wilma. Expedition 12 Commander and NASA Station Science Officer Bill McArthur and Flight ...more...
- 2005 Oct 28 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-053
Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev this week checked the clothes, tools and plans they will use for a five and half-hour spacewalk set for Nov. 7. McArthur and Tokarev will mark five years of continuous human presence on the International ...more...
- 2005 Nov 4 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-054
The Expedition 12 crew prepared for its first spacewalk and kept the international space station ship-shape this week as they passed a milestone of five years of human presence aboard the complex. Following a review by station program management last week, managers Thursday gave ...more...
- 2005 Nov 7 - EVA ISS EO-12-1 Crew: Tokarev, McArthur. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.22 days.
The EVA started an hour late due to a misaligned valve in the Quest airlock module. The crew installed a television camera on the outboard end of the port truss segment of the ISS and removed a failed Rotary Joint Motor Controller (RJMC). They then moved hand over hand to the P6 truss, 16 m above the Destiny module. McArthur removed an old experiment, the Floating Potential Probe, and pushed it away from the station. Finally the crew replaced a failed circuit breaker in the Mobile Transporter.
- 2005 Nov 7 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-055
The international space station crew completed the first spacewalk using U.S. space suits since April 2003, installing a new camera and discarding an inactive science probe. Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev began their spacewalk ...more...
- 2005 Nov 10 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-056
With their first spacewalk behind them, the residents of the international space station pressed ahead this week to prepare for several upcoming milestones. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev will get ...more...
- 2005 Nov 18 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-057
Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev took a short ride away from the International Space Station today, flying their Soyuz spacecraft from one docking port to another. McArthur and Tokarev left the station unoccupied for about half an hour as they ...more...
- 2005 Nov 18 - Soyuz TMA-7 moved on ISS.
The ISS EO-12 crew boarded their Soyuz TMA-7 and undocked from the Pirs module at 08:46 GMT, flew around the station, and then docked with the Zarya module at 09:05 GMT. This cleared the hatch on the Pirs module for a future planned spacewalk.
- 2005 Dec 16 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-058
This week the crew focused on preparing for the arrival of a holiday shipment of fuel, food, water, spare parts and gifts. A Progress spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:38 ...more...
- 2005 Dec 21 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-059
Supplies and holiday gifts are on the way to the International Space Station following today's Progress spacecraft launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The 20th supply ship to visit the station lifted off at 1:38 p.m. EST. Less than ...more...
- 2005 Dec 30 - International Space Station Status Report: SS05-061
The crew onboard the International Space Station are looking forward to celebrating New Year's Day after spending a quiet Christmas 225 miles above the Earth. On Sunday, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev ...more...
- 2006 Jan 6 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-001
It was back to work this week for the Expedition 12 crew after a long New Year's weekend that marked the halfway point in their six-month stay aboard the station. Sunday is the crew's 100th day in space. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur ...more...
- 2006 Jan 13 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-002
This past week, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev completed an important upgrade to the station's spacewalk preparation systems, and installed the Recharge Oxygen Orifice Bypass Assembly. The assembly will conserve station oxygen during spacewalk preparations when the ...more...
- 2006 Jan 20 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-003
Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur began his week Sunday by running a half-marathon on the station treadmill, supporting friends and colleagues running in the Houston Marathon. As he ran 220 miles above the Earth on board the station, the runners circled Houston. ...more...
- 2006 Feb 3 - EVA ISS EO-12-2 Crew: Tokarev, McArthur. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.24 days.
Wearing Orlan suits, the crew emerged from the Pirs airlock of the station and first released a surplus Orlan suit with its radio transmitter activated, dubbed SuitSat. SuitSat broadcast greetings in six languages to radio amateurs for two orbits before its batteries failed. The crew then moved to the Zarya module and relocated the Strela crane grapple fixture to the Unity module. This cleared Zarya for the future temporary stowage of debris shields. The crew moved on to the station's center truss, where they safed a cutting mechanism on one of two umbilicals to the Mobile Transporter rail car. Returning to Pirs, they retrieved a microorganism experiment and photographed the exterior of Zvezda.
- 2006 Feb 3 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-005
Space station crewmembers released a spacesuit-turned-satellite during the second spacewalk of their mission last night. Called SuitSat, it faintly transmitted recorded voices of school children to amateur ...more...
- 2006 Feb 10 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-006
The International Space Station crew completed a semiannual treadmill overhaul this week and began readying for a first-ever station "camp out" next week. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev spent several ...more...
- 2006 Feb 17 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-006A
After an almost six-hour spacewalk last week, the crew began the week with a little time off; then returned to science investigations, routine maintenance and equipment tests. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev spent the ...more...
- 2006 Feb 24 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-007
Aboard the International Space Station this week, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev have been preparing for upcoming spacecraft arrivals and departures. Managers decided to postpone the planned station "campout" this week until next ...more...
- 2006 Mar 4 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-009
The International Space Station crew's week included a robotic arm first and a docking communications test to prepare for a new European cargo ship. Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev repaired ...more...
- 2006 Mar 10 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-010
Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev plan to move their Soyuz capsule from the Earth-facing docking port of the station's Zarya module to an aft port on the Zvezda module on Monday, March 20. If all goes as planned, the flight will take less than 40 minutes. Undocking is ...more...
- 2006 Mar 17 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-011
Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev plan to move their Soyuz capsule from the Earth-facing docking port of the station's Zarya module to an aft port on the Zvezda module on Monday, March 20. If all goes as planned, the flight will take less than 40 minutes. Undocking is ...more...
- 2006 Mar 24 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-012
The Expedition 12 crew members have the International Space Station poised and ready for their replacements to arrive March 31. Soyuz Commander Valery Tokarev and Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur moved their ...more...
- 2006 Mar 30 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-013
The 13th crew of the International Space Station roared away today from Kazakhstan into orbit atop a Russian Soyuz rocket. Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer ...more...
- 2006 Mar 30 - Soyuz TMA-8 Crew: Vinogradov, Williams Jeffrey, Pontes. Spacecraft: Soyuz TMA. Payload: Soyuz TMA s/n 218. Mass: 7,250 kg (15,980 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz FG. Duration: 182.95 days. Perigee: 336 km (208 mi). Apogee: 349 km (216 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 91.40 min.
Soyuz TMA-8 docked with the Zarya nadir port of the ISS at 04:19 GMT on April 1. It undocked from Zarya on 28 September at 21:53 GMT, with the return crew of Vinogradov, Williams and space tourist Ansari aboard. It landed in Kazakhstan at 01:13 GMT on 29 September.
- 2006 Apr 1 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-014
A new crew pulled into port at the International Space Station late Friday to start a six-month mission. With Expedition 13 and Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov at the controls, the Soyuz ...more...
- 2006 Apr 6 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-015
Camaraderie and hard work highlighted this week's joint operations on the International Space Station. Aboard the complex, one crew prepared for a return to Earth while another focused ...more...
- 2006 Apr 7 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-016
After orbiting Earth more than 3,000 times during six months on the International Space Station, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev returned to the planet Sunday morning in Kazakhstan. With them was Marcos Pontes, Brazil's first astronaut. The Soyuz spacecraft ...more...
- 2006 Apr 14 - International Space Station Status Report: SS06-017
The 13th crew of the International Space Station is wrapping up its first week flying solo in its new orbiting home. The crew's work has included station maintenance, medical and other experiments ...more...
- 2006 Jul 8 - STS-121 MCC Status Report #08
The first spacewalk of Discovery's STS-121 mission to the International Space Station will highlight Saturday activities for crews of both docked spacecraft. Spacewalkers Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum have two major tasks. First they will ...more...
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