Expedition 6

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Expedition 6 was a long-duration International Space Station mission in the early 2000s that conducted scientific research and station maintenance with a three-person crew.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf International Space Station expedition
long-duration spaceflight mission
affectedBy Space Shuttle Columbia disaster NERFINISHED
commander Kenneth D. Bowersox NERFINISHED
country Russia
United States of America
surface form: United States
crewMember Donald R. Pettit NERFINISHED
Kenneth D. Bowersox NERFINISHED
Nikolai Budarin NERFINISHED
crewSize 3
endDate 2003-05-03
flightEngineer Donald R. Pettit NERFINISHED
Nikolai Budarin NERFINISHED
followedBy Expedition 7 NERFINISHED
launchDate 2002-11-23
launchMission STS-113 NERFINISHED
launchSite Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
launchVehicle Space Shuttle Endeavour NERFINISHED
missionDuration ~161 days
missionType research
space station maintenance
notableEvent first ISS expedition to return to Earth on a Soyuz after the Columbia accident
numberOfEVAs 2
operator NASA
Roscosmos NERFINISHED
orbit Low Earth orbit NERFINISHED
partOf ISS long-duration expedition sequence
precededBy Expedition 5 NERFINISHED
primaryLanguage English
Russian
program International Space Station program NERFINISHED
researchArea Earth observation
life sciences
microgravity science
technology demonstration
returnDate 2003-05-03
returnSite Kazakh Steppe NERFINISHED
returnVehicle Soyuz TMA-1 NERFINISHED
spaceAgencyOfCommander NASA NERFINISHED
spaceAgencyOfFlightEngineer NASA NERFINISHED
Roscosmos NERFINISHED
spacecraftDocked Progress resupply spacecraft NERFINISHED
Soyuz TMA-1 NERFINISHED
spaceStation International Space Station NERFINISHED
startDate 2002-11-25
totalEVATime ~13 hours 17 minutes

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Kenneth D. Bowersox spaceMission Expedition 6