Expedition 38

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Protein crystal growth and immunity experiments during Expedition 38 looked to provide insights and develop treatments for a variety of diseases and aging conditions. New equipment used lasers to enable the spectral analysis of gases in the station environment and test beaming large amounts of data from space to the ground.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Oleg Kotov, Richard Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin, Sergey Ryazanskiy, Michael Hopkins

Launch

Sept. 25, 2013

Landing

March 10, 2014

The official insignia of the Expedition 38 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Oleg Kotov, Commander
Richard Mastracchio, Flight Engineer
Koichi Wakata, Flight Engineer
Mikhail Tyurin, Flight Engineer
Sergey Ryazanskiy, Flight Engineer
Mike Hopkins, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

3/10/14 – Expedition 37/38 Land
2/18/14 – Cygnus Release
2/5/14 – ISS Progress 54 Launch
2/3/14 – ISS Progress 52 Undock
1/12/14 – Cygnus Install
1/9/14 – Orbital-1 Launch
11/30/13 – ISS Progress 53 Dock

Spacewalks

Date: Jan. 27, 2014
Duration: 6 hours, 8 minutes
Spacewalkers: Oleg Kotov, Sergei Ryazanskiy

Date: Dec. 27, 2013
Duration: 8 hours, 7 minutes
Spacewalkers: Oleg Kotov, Sergei Ryazanskiy

Date: Dec. 24, 2013
Duration: 7 hours, 30 minutes
Spacewalkers: Richard Mastracchio, Mike Hopkins

Date: Dec. 21, 2013
Duration: 5 hours, 28 minutes
Spacewalkers: Richard Mastracchio, Mike Hopkins

Expedition 38 Resources

News Releases

The news releases for Expedition 38 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 38, 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 38 in the gallery.