Expedition 16

Occurred 16 years ago

Expedition 16 researched brain blood supply, studied space ergonomics, and explored materials strength. Europe's ATV cargo craft launched for the first time.

Mission Type

Humans in Space

meet the crew

Peggy Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko, Clayton Anderson, Daniel Tani, Léopold Eyharts, Garrett Reisman

Launch

Oct. 10, 2007

Landing

April 19, 2008

The official insignia of the Expedition 16 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Peggy Whitson, Commander
Yuri Malenchenko, Flight Engineer
Clayton Anderson, Flight Engineer
Daniel Tani, Flight Engineer
Léopold Eyharts, Flight Engineer
Garrett Reisman, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

4/19/08 – Expedition 16 Undock/Land
4/10/08 – Expedition 17 Dock
4/8/08 – Expedition 17 Launch
4/7/08 – ISS Progress 28 Undock
4/3/08 – ATV-1 Dock
3/24/08 – STS-123 Undock
3/12/08 – STS-123 Dock
2/18/08 – STS-122 Undock
2/9/08 – STS-122 Dock
2/7/08 – ISS Progress 28 Dock
2/5/08 – ISS Progress 28 Launch
2/4/08 – ISS Progress 27 Undock
12/26/07 – ISS Progress 27 Dock
12/23/07 – ISS Progress 27 Launch
12/21/07 – ISS Progress 26 Undock
11/5/07 – STS-120 Undock
10/25/07 – STS-120 Dock

Spacewalks

Date: March 23, 2008
Duration: 6 hours, 2 minutes
Spacewalks: Michael Foreman, Robert Behnken

Date: March 21, 2008
Duration: 6 hours, 24 minutes
Spacewalks: Michael Foreman, Robert Behnken

Date: March 18, 2008
Duration: 6 hours, 53 minutes
Spacewalks: Richard Linnehan, Robert Behnken

Date: March 16, 2008
Duration: 7 hours, 8 minutes
Spacewalks: Richard Linnehan, Michael Foreman

Date: March 14, 2008
Duration: 7 hours, 1 minute
Spacewalks: Richard Linnehan, Garret Reisman

Date: Feb. 15, 2008
Duration: 7 hours, 25 minutes
Spacewalks: Rex Walheim, Stanley Love

Date: Feb. 13, 2008
Duration: 6 hours, 45 minutes
Spacewalks: Rex Walheim, Hans Schlegel

Date: Feb. 11, 2008
Duration: 7 hours, 58 minutes
Spacewalks: Rex Walheim, Stanley Love

Date: Jan. 30, 2008
Duration: 7 hours, 10 minutes
Spacewalks: Peggy Whitson, Dan Tani

Date: Dec. 18, 2007
Duration: 6 hours, 56 minutes
Spacewalks: Peggy Whitson, Dan Tani

Date: Nov. 24, 2007
Duration: 7 hours, 4 minutes
Spacewalks: Peggy Whitson, Dan Tani

Date: Nov. 20, 2007
Duration: 7 hours, 16 minutes
Spacewalks: Peggy Whitson, Dan Tani

Date: Nov. 9, 2007
Duration: 6 hours, 55 minutes
Spacewalks: Peggy Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko

Date: Nov. 3, 2007
Duration: 7 hours, 19 minutes
Spacewalkers: Scott Parazynski, Doug Wheelock

Date: Oct. 30, 2007
Duration: 7 hours, 8 minutes
Spacewalkers: Scott Parazynski, Dan Tani

Date: Oct. 28, 2007
Duration: 5 hours, 33 minutes
Spacewalkers: Scott Parazynski, Salizhan Sharipov

Date: Oct. 26, 2007
Duration: 6 hours, 14 minutes
Spacewalkers: Scott Parazynski, Doug Wheelock

Expedition 16 Resources

News Releases

The news releases for Expedition 16 covering a variety of mission events and other activities both on Earth and in space.

Earth's Moon, Venus, Jupiter and the crescent of Earth at the top.

Expedition Press Kit

Get an overview of Expedition 16, its crew, and the activities they conducted during their mission to the International Space Station.

Mission Science

Learn more about the range of microgravity science encompassing human research, space phsyics, and more the Expedition 16 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 16, 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 16 in the gallery.