Expedition 49

Occurred 9 years ago

Expedition 49 investigated a range of human research topics including the brain and the heart, as well as studied combustion and fluid physics and how they affect spacecraft and Earth manufacturing.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Sergey Ryzhikov, Shane Kimbrough, Andrey Borisenko, Kate Rubins, Anatoly Ivanishin, Takuya Onishi

Launch

June 6, 2016

Landing

Oct. 29, 2016

Expedition 49 Official Crew Portrait — Expedition 49 official crew portrait with (from left) Sergei Ryzhikov, Shane Kimbrough, Andrei Borisenko, Kate Rubins, Anatoli Ivanishin, and Takuya Onishi.
NASA

Crew Members

Anatoly Ivanishin, Commander
Shane Kimbrough, Flight Engineer
Andrey Borisenko, Flight Engineer
Kate Rubins, Flight Engineer
Sergey Ryzhikov, Flight Engineer
Takuya Onishi, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

10/29/16 – Expedition 48/49 Land
10/23/16 – Orbital ATK CRS-5 Capture
10/21/16 – Expedition 49/50 Dock
10/19/16 – Expedition 49/50 Launch
10/17/16 – Orbital ATK CRS-5 Launch
10/14/16 – ISS Progress 63 Undocks

Visiting Vehicles

10/14/2016 – Progress 63 Undocks
10/17/16 – Cygnus OA-5 Launch
10/23/16 – Cygnus OA-5 Capture

Expedition 49 Resources

Mission Blogs

The daily blog updates for Expedition 49 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 49 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 49, 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 49 in the gallery.