Expedition 36

Expedition 36 was the 36th long-duration mission to the International Space Station.

ISS Expedition 36

Mission type	ISS Expedition
Expedition
Space Station	International Space Station
Began	13 May 2013[1]
Ended	10 September 2013
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-08M Soyuz TMA-09M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-08M Soyuz TMA-09M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 35/36: Pavel Vinogradov Aleksandr Misurkin Chris Cassidy Expedition 36/37: Karen L. Nyberg Fyodor Yurchikhin Luca Parmitano
(l-r) Misurkin, Vinogradov, Cassidy, Parmitano, Yurchikhin and Nyberg ISS expeditions

Crew

Position	First Part (May 2013)	Second Part (May 2013 to September 2013)
Commander	Pavel Vinogradov, RSA Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Aleksandr Misurkin, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Chris Cassidy, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Karen L. Nyberg, NASA Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Fyodor Yurchikhin, RSA Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Luca Parmitano, ESA First spaceflight

Sources

NASA[2]

Mission

On 2013 June 16, the 50th anniversary of Vostok 6, the first spaceshot by a woman, Valentina Tereshkova, Karen L. Nyberg was one of two women in space, the other being Wang Yaping aboard Tiangong-1 on the Shenzhou 10 mission.[3]

On 2013 July 16, during EVA-23, Luca Parmitano reported that water was steadily leaking into his helmet. Flight controllers elected to abort the EVA immediately, and Parmitano made his way back to the Quest airlock, followed by Chris Cassidy, with whom he was performing the EVA. The airlock began re-pressurizing after a 1-hour and 32 minute spacewalk, and by this time Parmitano was having difficulty seeing, hearing, and speaking due to the amount of water in his suit. After re-pressurization, commander Pavel Vinogradov and crew member Fyodor Yurchikhin quickly removed Parmitano's helmet and soaked up the water with towels. Despite the incident, Parmitano was reported to be in good spirits and suffered no injury.[4][5][6]

References

1. "Expedition 35 Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan". NASA. Retrieved 2013-05-14.
2. "NASA And Partners Name Upcoming Space Station Crew Members". NASA. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
3. Ken Kremer (16 June 2013). "Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova; 1st Woman in Space 50 Years Ago! Ready for Mars". Universe Today.
4. "EVA-23 terminated due to EVA-23 terminated due to Parmitano EMU issue". NASASpaceFlight. 16 July 2013.
5. "Spacewalk aborted by spacesuit water leak". SpaceflightNow. 16 July 2013.
6. "EVA-23 terminated due to EVA-23 terminated due to Parmitano EMU issue". NASA. 16 July 2013.

External links

• NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
• Reichhardt, Tony (May 2014). "The Spacewalk That Almost Killed Him". Air & Space/Smithsonian. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (20 December 2013). "Suit Water Intrusion Mishap Investigation Report" (PDF). Retrieved 3 July 2020.