Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.
Crew
PositionFirst Part(September–October 2012)Second Part(October–November 2012)Commander Sunita Williams, NASASecond spaceflightFlight Engineer 1 Yuri Malenchenko, RSAFifth spaceflightFlight Engineer 2 Akihiko Hoshide, JAXASecond spaceflightFlight Engineer 3 Kevin A. Ford, NASASecond and last spaceflightFlight Engineer 4 Oleg Novitskiy, RSAFirst spaceflightFlight Engineer 5 Evgeny Tarelkin, RSAOnly spaceflight
Source NASA
Notable experiments
The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on Earth from space.
References
External links
NASA's Space Station Expeditions page NASA's Consolidated Launch Schedule