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Expedition 37

Occurred 11 years ago

Expedition 37 analyzed space and Earthbound biological samples, collected data on astronaut physiology, and measured space's effect on body shape and size.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy, Michael Hopkins, Luca Parmitano, Karen Nyberg

Launch

May 28, 2013

Landing

Nov. 10, 2013

The official insignia of the Expedition 37 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Fyodor Yurchikhin, Commander
Oleg Kotov, Flight Engineer
Sergey Ryazanskiy, Flight Engineer
Mike Hopkins, Flight Engineer
Luca Parmitano, Flight Engineer
Karen Nyberg, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

11/10/13 – Expedition 36/37 Land
11/7/13 – Expedition 38/39 Launch
11/1/13 – Soyuz Relocation
10/28/13 – ATV-4 Undock
10/22/13 – Cygnus Release
9/29/20013 – Cygnus Capture
9/25/13 – Expedition 37/38 Launch
9/18/13 – Cygnus Launch

Spacewalks

Date: Nov. 9, 2013
Duration: 5 hours, 50 minutes
Spacewalkers: Oleg Kotov, Sergei Ryazanskiy

Expedition 37 Resources

News Releases

The news releases for Expedition 37 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

Learn more about the range of microgravity science encompassing human research, space phsyics, and more the Expedition 37 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 37, 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 37 in the gallery.