Commander George Zamka leads the mission, which will deliver the Tranquility node and a seven-windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics.
Commander George Zamka leads the mission, which will deliver the Tranquility node and a seven-windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics.
Commanded by Jeffrey Williams, Expedition 22 also consists of cosmonauts Maxim Suraev and Oleg Kotov, as well as astronauts Soichi Noguchi of the Japanese Exploration Agency and T.J. Creamer of NASA.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory will help us understand the sun's influence on Earth by studying the solar atmosphere at multiple wavelengths.