Expedition 29
Twenty-ninth long-duration ISS expedition, delayed by a cargo launch failure.
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Expedition 29 was the 29th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. It began on 16 September 2011 with the departure of Soyuz TMA-21 and ended on 21 November 2011 with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-02M. The expedition was notable for a launch delay caused by the failure of the Progress M-12M resupply vehicle.
Mission highlights
The first three crew members launched aboard Soyuz TMA-02M from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 7 June 2011 at 21:18 UTC. The crew comprised Sergey Volkov, Satoshi Furukawa, and Michael Fossum. Their backups were Oleg Kononenko, Donald Pettit, and André Kuipers. Soyuz TMA-02M docked to the ISS on 9 June 2011 at 5:19 pm EDT.
Soyuz TMA-22 launched on 14 November 2011 at 04:14 UTC, carrying Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoli Ivanishin, and Daniel Burbank. It docked with the ISS on 16 November 2011 at 5:24 am GMT. Expedition 29 concluded with the departure of Soyuz TMA-02M on 21 November 2011 at 11:00 pm GMT. The spacecraft soft-landed in Kazakhstan on 22 November at 2:26 am GMT, albeit on its side.
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- Wikipedia: Expedition 29 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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