Expedition 49

Occurred 7 years ago

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

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