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Expedition 15
	; Mission insignia
Call sign	Expedition 15
Number of crew	3
Launch	April 7, 2007 (Soyuz TMA-10), June 8, 2007 (STS-117)
Launch craft	Soyuz TMA-10 (Yurchikhin/Kotov), Atlantis STS-117 (Anderson)
Landing	October 21, 2007 (Soyuz TMA-10), November 3, 2007 (STS-120)
Landing craft	Soyuz TMA-10 (Yurchikhin/Kotov), Discovery STS-120 (Anderson)
Landing site	Ballistic Trajectory Landing Site northwest of Arkalyk
Time docked	April 9, 2007 07:10 UTC - October 21, 2007 07:14 UTC
EVA duration	11 hours 2 minutes
Mission duration	196 days, 17 hours, 17 minutes
	; Second part crew from left to right: Clayton Anderson, Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov
Expedition 14	Expedition 16

Expedition 15 was the 15th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Four crew members participated in the expedition, although for most of the expedition's duration only three were on the station at any one time. During Expedition 15, the ISS Integrated Truss Structure was expanded twice: STS-117 brought the S3/S4 truss, and STS-118 brought the S5 truss.

[edit] Crew

Position^[1]	First Part (April to June 2007)	Second Part (June to October 2007)
Commander	Fyodor Yurchikhin, RSA 2nd spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Oleg Kotov, RSA 1st spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Sunita Williams, NASA 1st Spaceflight	Clayton Anderson, NASA 1st spaceflight

[edit] Crew Notes

Flight Engineer Sunita Williams was the first Expedition 15 crew member to arrive. She participated in Expedition 14, until Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin assumed command of the station. Williams arrived at the station on 11 December, 2006, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery flight STS-116. Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov arrived the station on 9 April, 2007 aboard Soyuz TMA-10.

On 26 April 2007, NASA announced that Williams would return to Earth on STS-117, flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis, instead of STS-118 as originally planned.^[2] Williams was replaced by Clayton Anderson, who arrived at the station aboard Atlantis, which docked on 10 June, 2007.

Expedition 15 ended officially after Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson arrived at the station aboard Soyuz TMA-11, and the official change of command ceremony took place on 19 October, 2007.

[edit] Backup crew

Roman Romanenko Commander - RSA
Mikhail Korniyenko Flight Engineer - RSA
Gregory Chamitoff Flight Engineer - NASA (for Anderson)

[edit] Mission details

Launch: April 7, 2007 17:31 UTC
Docking: April 9, 2007 07:10 UTC
Undocking: October 21, 2007 07:14 UTC
Landing: October 21, 2007 10:46 UTC
LandingSite: Ballistic Trajectory Landing Site northwest of Arkalyk

On October 21, 2007, after the separation of the Soyuz TMA-10 capsule, Moscow Mission Control reported that the Soyuz had entered into a ballistic trajectory, which resulted in a landing that was 340 kilometers (211 mi) short of the intended Kazakhstan landing site.^[3]^[4] Landing occurred without incident, and by 10:55 UTC, all crew members were out of the capsule, and the vehicle was secured. The only other time a Soyuz landing has resulted in a ballistic trajectory was the landing of Soyuz TMA-1, for Expedition 6.^[3]

[edit] EVAs

EVA 1: May 30, 2007 - Yurchikhin/Kotov, 5 hours, 25 minutes.^[5]
EVA 2: June 6, 2007 - Yurchikhin/Kotov, 5 hours, 37 minutes.^[6]

Total Expedition 15 EVA time: 11 hours, 2 minutes.

Original second portion of Expedition 15 crew portrait, from left to right: Daniel Tani, Yurchikhin, Kotov. Due to a change in schedule, Tani joined Expedition 16 in October 2007.

[edit] References

^ NASA (2006). "NASA Announces New International Space Station Crew" (in English). NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/oct/HQ_06337_new_station_crew.html. Retrieved October 21 2007.
^ NASA. "NASA to Rotate Station Astronauts on Next Shuttle Mission". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/apr/HQ_07093_Williams_Return.html.
^ ^a ^b William Harwood (2007). "Soyuz capsule makes 'ballistic' descent to Earth" (in English). CBS News - Spaceflight Now. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp15/071021landing.html. Retrieved October 21 2007.
^ Associated Press (2007). "Soyuz Craft Lands Safely in Kazakhstan" (in English). ABC News. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3756666. Retrieved October 21 2007.
^ NASA (2007). "Spacewalk Complete, Debris Panels Installed" (in English). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_eva18.html. Retrieved October 21 2007.
^ NASA (2007). "Cosmonauts Wrap Up Debris-Panel Spacewalk" (in English). NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_eva19.html. Retrieved October 21 2007.

[edit] External links

"NASA - International Space Station Expedition 15". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/index.html.
"EXPEDITION FIFTEEN (ISS-15)". S.P.Korolev RSC Energia. http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/iss/iss-15.html.
"ISS: Expedition 15". SPACEFACTS. http://www.spacefacts.de/iss/english/exp_15.htm.
04/04/07: Soyuz Assembly Complete: Expedition 15 to Launch on April 7. Site includes all ISS Status Reports since 2003.

[crew-0] NASA (2006). "NASA Announces New International Space Station Crew" (in English). NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/oct/HQ_06337_new_station_crew.html. Retrieved October 21 2007.

[1] NASA. "NASA to Rotate Station Astronauts on Next Shuttle Mission". NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/apr/HQ_07093_Williams_Return.html.

[ballistic-2] William Harwood (2007). "Soyuz capsule makes 'ballistic' descent to Earth" (in English). CBS News - Spaceflight Now. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp15/071021landing.html. Retrieved October 21 2007.

[landing-3] Associated Press (2007). "Soyuz Craft Lands Safely in Kazakhstan" (in English). ABC News. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3756666. Retrieved October 21 2007.

[eva1-4] NASA (2007). "Spacewalk Complete, Debris Panels Installed" (in English). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_eva18.html. Retrieved October 21 2007.

[eva2-5] NASA (2007). "Cosmonauts Wrap Up Debris-Panel Spacewalk" (in English). NASA. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15_eva19.html. Retrieved October 21 2007.

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