Expedition 23

Expedition 23

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Mission duration	76 days, 16 hours, 1 minute
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	18 March 2010, 08:03 (2010-03-18UTC08:03Z) UTC
Ended	2 June 2010, 00:04 (2010-06-02UTC00:05Z) UTC
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-17 Soyuz TMA-18
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-17 Soyuz TMA-18
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 22/23: Oleg Kotov Soichi Noguchi Timothy Creamer Expedition 23/24: Aleksandr Skvortsov Mikhail Korniyenko Tracy Caldwell Dyson
Expedition 23 mission patch (l-r) Korniyenko, Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov, Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi ISS expeditions ← Expedition 22 Expedition 24 →

Expedition 23 (Russian: МКС-23) was the 23rd long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 23 began with the Soyuz TMA-16 undocking on 18 March 2010. Shortly thereafter cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson arrived at the Space Station on Soyuz TMA-18 on 4 April 2010.^[1] The Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00:04 EST on 2 April 2010.^[2]

Position	First part (March 2010 to April 2010)	Second part (April 2010 to June 2010)
Commander	Oleg Kotov, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Soichi Noguchi, JAXA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Timothy Creamer, NASA Only spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Tracy Caldwell Dyson, NASA Second spaceflight

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NASA^[3]

• Douglas H. Wheelock – Commander
• Anton Shkaplerov
• Satoshi Furukawa
• Mikhail Tyurin
• Aleksandr Samokutyayev
• Scott J. Kelly

Three Russian cosmonauts, two American and one Japanese astronauts made up the Expedition 23 crew. It was the first ISS crew to include three Russians at once.^[4] The Expedition 23 crew continued outfitting the newest modules of the nearly completed space station. The crew welcomed the shuttle flight STS-131 in April 2010. The Expedition 23 crew also saw the arrival of the Rasvet Russian docking module (MRM1) aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-132, which launched on 14 May 2010.

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  Caldwell Dyson, Skvortsov and Korniyenko in front of their Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft.
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  Skvortsov, Caldwell Dyson and Korniyenko wave farewell from the bottom of the Soyuz rocket.
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  Soyuz TMA-18 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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  Expedition 23 crew members in the Destiny laboratory.
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  STS-131 & Expedition 23 group portrait.
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  Expedition 23 lands.

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to ISS Expedition 23.

• NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
• Expedition 23 photography