Expedition 36

Occurred 10 years ago

The Expedition 36 crew studied how space affects the eyes and brain for the duration of their mission to define the risk of spaceflight to astronauts and better understand Earth-bound health conditions. New software promoted augmented-reality Earth observations from the station and on the ground. A pair of physics experiments investigated wireless power transfers and the evaporation and combustion of renewable fuels.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Pavel Vinogradov, Luca Parmitano, Karen Nyberg, Alexander Misurkin, Chris Cassidy, Fyodor Yurchikhin

Launch

March 28, 2013

Landing

Sept. 10, 2013

The official insignia of the Expedition 36 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Pavel Vinogradov, Commander
Luca Parmitano, Flight Engineer
Karen Nyberg, Flight Engineer
Alexander Misurkin, Flight Engineer
Chris Cassidy, Flight Engineer
Fyodor Yurchikhin, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

9/10/13 – Expedition 35/36 Land
9/4/13 – HTV-4 Kounotori Release
8/9/13 – HTV-4 Kounotori Berth
8/3/13 – HTV-4 Kounotori Launch
7/27/13 – 52P Launch/Dock
7/25/13 – ISS Progress 50 Undock
6/15/13 – ATV-4 Dock
6/11/13 – 51P Undock
6/5/13 – ATV-4 Launch
5/28/13 – Expedition 36/37 Launch

Spacewalks

Date: Aug. 22, 2013
Duration: 5 hours, 58 minutes
Spacewalkers: Fyodor Yurchikhin, Alexander Misurkin

Date: Aug. 16, 2013
Duration: 7 hours, 29 minutes
Spacewalkers: Fyodor Yurchikhin, Alexander Misurkin

Date: July 16, 2013
Duration: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Spacewalkers: Chris Cassidy, Luca Parmitano

Date: July 9, 2013
Duration: 6 hours, 7 minutes
Spacewalkers: Chris Cassidy, Luca Parmitano

Date: June 24, 2013
Duration: 6 hours, 34 minutes
Spacewalkers: Fyodor Yurchikhin, Alexander Misurkin

Expedition 36 Resources

News Releases

The news releases for Expedition 36 covering a variety of mission events and other activities both on Earth and in space.

The sun's first rays burst over the Earth's horizon

Mission Summary

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

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

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 36, 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 36 in the gallery.