Expedition 28
Expedition 28 hosted the final Space Shuttle mission.
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Expedition 28 was the 28th long-term stay on the International Space Station, starting on 23 May 2011 after Expedition 27 left. Its crew arrived in two groups, first in April and then in June 2011. The expedition hosted the last Space Shuttle flight, STS-135, in July 2011, and ended when Expedition 29 began on 16 September 2011.
Mission highlights
Expedition 28 began with the undocking and departure of the Expedition 27 crew on 23 May 2011 at 21:35 UTC. The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft, carrying Dmitri Kondratyev, Catherine Coleman, and Paolo Nespoli, landed safely at 2:27 UTC on 24 May. Before departing the station, the TMA-20 crew photographed the exterior, capturing images of Space Shuttle Endeavour docked on its final mission, STS-134.
At the start of Expedition 28, Endeavour was still docked; its crew installed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and spare parts on the station. The remaining Expedition 28 crew—Sergey Volkov, Michael E. Fossum, and Satoshi Furukawa—launched aboard Soyuz TMA-02M on 7 June 2011 at 20:12 UTC and docked early on 9 June at 21:18 UTC. On 20 June 2011, the European ATV Johannes Kepler undocked after being docked since February; it was deorbited over the southern Pacific Ocean on 21 June.
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- Wikipedia: Expedition 28 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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