Expedition 29

Occurred 15 years ago

Expedition 29 studied a variety of space phenomena including biology, fluid physics, protein crystals, and nanomaterials to advance health and manufacturing for humans on and off the Earth.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Michael Fossum, Anatoly Ivanishin, Sergey Volkov, Anton Shkaplerov, Satoshi Furukawa, Dan Burbank

Launch

June 7, 2011

Landing

Nov, 21, 2011

Expedition 29 Official Crew Portrait — Expedition 29 crew members take a break from training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to pose for a crew portrait. Pictured on the front row are NASA astronauts Mike Fossum (left), commander; and Dan Burbank, flight engineer. Pictured from the left (back row) are Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa along with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov, all flight engineers.
NASA

Expedition 29 Official Crew Insignia — The official insignia of the Expedition 29 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Michael Fossum, Commander
Anatoly Ivanishin, Flight Engineer
Sergei Volkov, Flight Engineer
Anton Shkaplerov, Flight Engineer
Satoshi Furukawa, Flight Engineer
Dan Burbank, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

11/21/11 – Expedition 28/29 Land
2/2/11 – ISS Progress 45 Dock
11/30/11 – ISS Progress 45 Launch
11/29/11 – ISS Progress 42 Undock
11/16/11 – Expedition 29/30 Dock
11/13/11 – Expedition 29/30 Launch

Expedition 29 Resources

News Releases

The news releases for Expedition 29 covering a variety of mission events and other activities both on Earth and in space.

The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) Growth and Extinction Limits (GEL) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) studies flame growth and extinction in an effort to improve fire safety in space. This image shows a sequence of snapshots taken about 3 seconds apart. During this test point, the ambient oxygen concentration starts relatively high (28%). Initially, the flame is seen as yellow and sooty. As the ambient pressure is reduced, the flame becomes bluer and continues to shrink until fully extinguished. This gives researchers pressure limit data points for flame extinction that could help improve crew and spacecraft safety for future exploration missions.

Mission Science

Learn more about the range of microgravity science encompassing human research, space phsyics, and more the Expedition 29 crew has conducted.

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 29, 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 29 in the gallery.