Expedition 34
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Expedition 34 is scheduled to be the thirty-fourth expedition to the International Space Station
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Source: NASA
International Space Station
The International Space Station is a habitable, artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ISS follows the Salyut, Almaz, Cosmos, Skylab, and Mir space stations, as the 11th space station launched, not including the Genesis I and II prototypes...
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Crew
| Position | First Part (November 2012) |
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| Commander | Kevin A. Ford Kevin A. Ford Kevin Anthony Ford is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and a NASA astronaut. He is married with two children. Ford has received a number of special honors and awards, some of which are the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal and the... , NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... Second spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 1 | Oleg Novitskiy Oleg Novitskiy Oleg Viktorovich Novitskiy born on October 12, 1971, lieutenant colonel of Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006.-External links:*... , RSA Russian Federal Space Agency The Russian Federal Space Agency , commonly called Roscosmos and abbreviated as FKA and RKA , is the government agency responsible for the Russian space science program and general aerospace research. It was previously the Russian Aviation and Space Agency .Headquarters of Roscosmos are located... First spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 2 | Evgeny Tarelkin Evgeny Tarelkin Evgeny Igorevich Tarelkin is a Russian cosmonaut. He was selected as part of the TsPK-13 group in 2003.-Biography:Tarelkin graduated from the Yeysk Air Force School in 1996 and the Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1998 before rising to the rank of Captain in the Russian Air Force... , RSA First spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 3 | Thomas Marshburn Thomas Marshburn Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Marshburn was born in Statesville, North Carolina. He served as a Mission Specialist on STS-127.-Education:... , NASA Second spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 4 | Chris Hadfield Chris Hadfield Chris Austin "Chris" Hadfield, O.Ont, MSC, CD is a Canadian astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency who was the first Canadian to walk in space. Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions, STS-74 in 1995 and STS-100 in 2001. He has served as CAPCOM for both Space Shuttle and International... , CSA Third spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 5 | Roman Romanenko Roman Romanenko Roman Yurievich Romanenko is a cosmonaut at the Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.-Personal life:His parents, Yuri Victorovich Romanenko and Aleftina Ivanovna Romanenko, live in Star City. He is married to Yulia Leonidovna Romanenko . They have one son... , RSA Second spaceflight |
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Source: NASA