Expedition 47

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Expedition 47 studied space-caused bone and muscle loss, ways to develop medicines that work in microgravity, and smaller, more effective exercise devices that will take up less volume on spacecraft.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Timothy Kopra, Timothy Peake, Yuri Malenchenko, Oleg Skripochka, Alexey Ovchinin, Jeff Williams

Launch

Dec. 15, 2015

Landing

June 18, 2016

Expedition 47 Official Crew Portrait — Expedition 47 crew members (from left) Oleg Skripochka, Jeff Williams, Alexey Ovchinin, Tim Peake, Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko.
NASA

Crew Members

Timothy Kopra, Commander
Timothy Peake, Flight Engineer
Yuri Malenchenko, Flight Engineer
Oleg Skripochka, Flight Engineer
Alexey Ovchinin, Flight Engineer
Jeff Williams, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

6/18/16 – Expedition 46/47 Land
6/14/16 – Orbital ATK CRS-6 Released
5/11/16 – SpaceX CRS-8 Released
4/10/16 – SpaceX CRS-8 Capture
4/8/16 – SpaceX CRS-8 Launch
4/2/16 – ISS Progress 63 Docks
3/31/16 – ISS Progress 63 Launch
3/29/16 – ISS Progress 61 Undocks
3/26/16 – Orbital ATK CRS-6 Capture
3/22/16 – Orbital ATK CRS-6 Launch
3/18/16 – Expedition 47/48 Launch/Dock

Visiting Vehicles

6/14/16 – Orbital ATK CRS-6 Released
5/11/16 – SpaceX CRS-8 Released
4/10/16 – SpaceX CRS-8 Capture
4/8/16 – SpaceX CRS-8 Launch
4/2/16 – ISS Progress 63 Docks
3/31/16 – ISS Progress 63 Launch
3/29/16 – ISS Progress 61 Undocks
3/26/16 – Orbital ATK CRS-6 Capture
3/22/16 – Orbital ATK CRS-6 Launch

Expedition 47 Resources

Mission Blogs

The daily blog updates for Expedition 47 highlighting crew and cargo missions, spacewalks, and advanced space research.

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 47 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 47, 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 47 in the gallery.