Expedition 22

Expedition 22 was the twenty-second long duration crew flight to the International Space Station (ISS). This expedition began on 1 December 2009 when the Expedition 21 crew departed. For a period of three weeks, there were only two crew members; it was the first time that had occurred since STS-114. Commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Maksim Surayev were joined by the rest of their crew on 22 December 2009, making the Expedition 22 a crew of five.^[1]

Expedition 22

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Mission duration	167 days (at ISS) 169 days (launch to landing)
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	1 December 2009 (2009-12)
Ended	18 March 2010 (2010-03-19)
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz TMA-17
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz TMA-17
Crew
Crew size	5
Members	Expedition 21/22: Jeffrey N. Williams Maksim Surayev Expedition 22/23: Oleg Kotov Soichi Noguchi Timothy Creamer
EVAs	1
EVA duration	5 hours, 44 minutes
Expedition 22 mission patch (l-r) Creamer, Williams, Surayev, Kotov and Noguchi ISS expeditions ← Expedition 21 Expedition 23 →

The expedition had ended when Soyuz TMA-16 undocked on 18 March 2010, and was immediately followed by the start of Expedition 23.

Crew

Position	First Part (1 – 22 December 2009)	Second Part (22 December 2009 – 18 March 2010)
Commander	Jeffrey N. Williams, NASA Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Maksim Surayev, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2		Oleg Kotov, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Soichi Noguchi, JAXA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Timothy Creamer, NASA Only spaceflight

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Backup crew

• Shannon Walker – Commander
• Aleksandr Skvortsov
• Douglas H. Wheelock
• Anton Shkaplerov
• Satoshi Furukawa

Spacewalks

EVA[3]	Spacewalkers[4]	Start (UTC)	End (UTC)	Duration
EVA 1	Oleg Kotov Maksim Surayev	14 January 2010 10:05	14 January 2010 15:49	5 hours, 44 minutes
	Prepared the Poisk module for future dockings.[5] Spacewalk was performed using Orlan spacesuits.

Gallery

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  Kotov, Creamer and Noguchi.
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  The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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  The Soyuz TMA-17 rocket lifts off headed for the ISS on Expedition 22.
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  Kotov used a digital still camera to take this self-portrait during a January 2010 space-walk.
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  The Expedition 22 crew landed on Thursday, 18 March 2010.

See also

• 2010 in spaceflight
• List of human spaceflights
• List of International Space Station spacewalks
• List of spacewalks 2000–2014