Expedition 12
Twelfth expedition to the International Space Station.
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Expedition 12, the twelfth crew rotation to the International Space Station, lifted off from Kazakhstan aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-7. The team returned to Kazakhstan on 8 April 2006, joined by Brazil’s first astronaut, Marcos Pontes. Businessman Gregory Olsen, an American, flew up on the same Soyuz TMA-7 but came back with Expedition 11 on Soyuz TMA-6 on 11 October 2005, making him the third space tourist.
Spacewalks
Expedition 12's crew, McArthur and Tokarev, completed two spacewalks. Their first, on 7 November 2005, ran for 5 hours and 22 minutes. They mounted a new camera on the P1 Truss and tossed overboard the Floating Potential Probe, a broken device that had measured the station's voltage against surrounding plasma.
The second spacewalk, on 3 February 2006, lasted 5 hours and 43 minutes. The pair discarded an outdated Russian Orlan spacesuit called SuitSat-1, which carried a radio for student transmissions. They also collected the Biorisk experiment, snapped a picture of a micrometeoroid sensor, and secured the surviving cable of the mobile transporter.
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- Wikipedia: Expedition 12 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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