Sujet

Expedition Five crewmembers include (left to right) Cosmonaut Verleri Korzun, Commander; Astronaut Peggy Whitson, flight

Légende

Expedition Five crewmembers include left to right Cosmonaut Verleri Korzun, Commander Astronaut Peggy Whitson, flight engineer and Cosmonaut Sergei Treschev, flight engineer. Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour, STS-111, in April 2002, Expedition Five replaced Expedition Four on the International Space Station ISS for a scheduled 4-month mission. Expedition Five carried several new experiments and science facilities to the ISS. The research compliment included 24 new and continuing investigations 10 human life sciences studies, 6 in microgravity, 5 in space product development, and 3 sponsored by the Office of Space Flight. The new experiments are expected to lead to new insights in the fields of materials, plant scien Copyright: xpiemagsx piemagsspace-22018 ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT

Date

01 janv. 1900

Crédit

Photo12/Imago/piemags

Notre référence

MGO25A01_352

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

20,0Mo (743,2Ko) / 25,4cm x 19,7cm / 3000 x 2326 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Comander Astronaut Pegy Whitson flight engineer and Cosmonaut Sergei Treschev flight engieer. Launched abord the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour STS-111 in April 2002 Expedition Five replaced Expition Four on the Inernational Spacettion ISSfor ascheduled 4-month ission. Expedition Five carried sevral nw expriments and cience facilities to the ISS. The research compliment ncluded 24 new and continuig investgations 10 humanlife scences studie 6 n microgravity 5 in space produtdevelopment and 3 sponsored by the Office of SpaFlight. The new expriments ae xpectedto lead to new insights the fields of materials plant science commercial biotechnology andth long term effects of space flight on humans. 280 hours will be devoted to research in addition to the continuing building of the ISS. Station science will also be conducted by the ever-present ground crew with a new cadre of controllers for Expedition Five in the ISS Payload Operations Control Center POCC at NASA s Marshall Space Flight Cent