Expedition 14

Occurred 17 years ago

The Expedition 14 crew explored behavioral issues an astronaut might experience in the isolation of space and tested hand-eye coordination before, during, and after the mission. The crew also demonstrated the operation of bowling ball-sized satellites inside the station and the studied the effects of space on the genetic development of microbes.

Mission Type

Humans in Space

meet the crew

Michael Lopez-Alegria, Mikhail Tyurin, Sunita Williams, Thomas Reiter

Launch

Sept. 17, 2006

Landing

April 21, 2007

Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (center), Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer; cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin (right), flight engineer representing Russia’s Federal Space Agency; and astronaut Sunita L. Williams, flight engineer, take a break from training at Johnson Space Center to pose for a crew portrait.
NASA

The official insignia of the Expedition 14 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Michael Lopez-Alegria, Commander
Mikhail Tyurin, Flight Engineer
Sunita Williams, Flight Engineer
Thomas Reiter, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

4/21/07 – Expedition 14 Undock/Land
4/9/07 – Expedition 15 Dock
4/7/07 – Expedition 15 Launch
3/29/07 – Soyuz TMA-9 Relocation
3/27/07 – ISS Progress 23 Undock
1/19/07 – ISS Progress 24 Dock
1/16/07 – ISS Progress 22 Undock
12/19/06 – STS-116 Undock
12/11/06 – STS-116 Dock
10/26/06 – 23P Dock
10/10/06 – Soyuz TMA-9 Relocation
9/20/06 – Exp 14 Dock

Spacewalks

Date: Feb. 22, 2007
Duration: 6 hours, 18 minutes
Spacewalkers: Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria

Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Duration: 6 hours, 40 minutes
Spacewalkers: Michael Lopez-Alegria, Sunita Williams

Date: Feb. 4, 2007
Duration: 7 hours, 11 minutes
Spacewalkers: Michael Lopez-Alegria, Sunita Williams

Date: Jan. 31, 2007
Duration: 7 hours, 55 minutes
Spacewalkers: Michael Lopez-Alegria, Sunita Williams

Date: Nov. 22, 2006
Duration: 5 hours, 38 minutes
Spacewalkers: Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria

Date: Dec. 18, 2006
Duration: 6 hours, 38 minutes
Spacewalkers: Bob Curbeam, Christer Fuglesang

Date: Dec. 16, 2006
Duration: 7 hours, 31 minutes
Spacewalkers: Bob Curbeam, Sunita Williams

Date: Dec. 14, 2006
Duration: 5 hours
Spacewalkers: Bob Curbeam, Christer Fuglesang

Date: Dec. 12, 2006
Duration: 6 hours, 36 minutes
Spacewalkers: Bob Curbeam, Christer Fuglesang

Expedition 14 Resources

Status Reports

Expedition 14 Status Reports from September 2006 through April 2007.

Earth's Moon, Venus, Jupiter and the crescent of Earth at the top.

Expedition Press Kit

Get an overview of the Expedition, its crew and the activities they are working on during this mission to the International Space Station.

Mission Science

Explore hands-on activities, interactive, lesson plans, educator guides, and other downloadable content about this topic.

One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of 222 nautical miles above a point in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles off the coast of Africa near the Tropic of Cancer, photographed this eye-catching panorama of the night sky and the Milky Way on Sept. 27. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, flight engineer, tweeted the image, which was taken with an electronic still camera, set with a 24mm focal length. In his accompanying comments, Wiseman stated, "Sahara sands make the Earth glow orange."

Mission Imagery

During Expedition 14, the crew took images of the Earth views, the orbiting station, their daily lives aboard and the experiments they conducted during their stay, plus so much more. Check out some of the image highlights from Expedition 14 in the gallery.