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Expedition 39 Crew Profiles
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Commander Koichi Wakata
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata flew to the station on STS-119 and served as flight engineer for Expeditions 18, 19 and 20. Wakata will serve as Expedition 38 flight engineer and become Japan's first station commander during Expedition 39.
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Flight Engineer Richard Mastracchio
Rick Mastracchio served as a mission specialist for shuttle missions STS-106, STS-118 and STS-131 which visited the International Space Station. He will be flight engineer for Expedition 38/39.
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Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin
Mikhail Tyurin served as Flight Engineer for Expeditions 3 and Expedition 14. He accumulated a total of 340 days in space including 25 hours and 32 minutes of spacewalk time in 5 spacewalks.
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Flight Engineer Steve Swanson
Steve Swanson will be Expedition 40 commander. He also served as a mission specialist for two space shuttle missions. Both missions, STS-117 and STS-119, visited the International Space Station.
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Flight Engineer Alexander Skvortsov
Alexander Skvortsov served as Flight Engineer for Expedition 23 and Commander for Expedition 24 in 2010.
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Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev
Russian cosmonaut Oleg G. Artemyev is flight engineer for Expedition 39/40.
Overview
Expedition 39 will begin with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-10M in March 2014. Three additional crew members for Expedition 39 will launch to the station aboard Soyuz TMA-12M in March 2014.
Soyuz TMA-11M
Crew: Richard Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin
Launch: November 2013
Landing: May 2014
Soyuz TMA-12M
Crew: Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev, Steve Swanson
Launch: March 2014
Landing: September 2014