Expedition 19

Expedition 19 was the 19th long-duration flight to the International Space Station. This expedition launched on 26 March 2009, at 11:49 UTC aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft.^[1] Expedition 19 was the final three crew member expedition, before the crew size increased to six crew members with Expedition 20.

Expedition 19

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Mission duration	61 days, 23 hours, 29 minutes
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	28 March 2009, 13:05 (2009-03-28UTC13:05Z) UTC
Ended	29 May 2009, 12:34 (2009-05-29UTC12:35Z) UTC
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-14 Wakata: STS-119 Space Shuttle Discovery
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-14 Wakata: STS-127 Space Shuttle Endeavour
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Gennady Padalka Michael Barratt Koichi Wakata* * – transferred from Expedition 18 All members transferred to Expedition 20
Expedition 19 mission patch (Left to right) Michael Barratt, Gennady Padalka, Koichi Wakata ISS expeditions ← Expedition 18 Expedition 20 →

The expedition was commanded by Russian Air Force Colonel Gennady Padalka. On 31 March 2009, Padalka raised an issue concerning shared use of facilities such as exercise equipment and toilet facilities. Padalka claims that initial approval to use exercise equipment owned by the U.S. government was subsequently turned down. Russian and American members of the crew have now been informed to use only their own toilets and not to share rations. The result was a general lowering of morale on the station.^[2]

Crew

Position[3]	Crew Member
Commander	Gennady Padalka, RSA Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Michael Barratt, NASA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Koichi Wakata, JAXA Third Spaceflight

Backup crew

• Maksim Surayev – Commander – RSA (For Padalka)
• Jeffrey Williams – Flight Engineer – NASA (For Barratt)
• Soichi Noguchi – Flight Engineer – JAXA (For Wakata)