Expedition 34

Expedition 34 was the 34th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 18 November 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 33 crew to Earth.

Expedition 34

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	18 November 2012 (2012-11-18)
Ended	15 March 2013 (2013-03-16)
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-06M Soyuz TMA-07M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-06M Soyuz TMA-07M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 33/34: Kevin A. Ford Oleg Novitskiy Evgeny Tarelkin Expedition 34/35: Thomas H. Marshburn Chris A. Hadfield Roman Romanenko
Expedition 34 mission patch (l-r) Novitskiy, Ford, Tarelkin, Romanenko, Hadfield and Marshburn ISS expeditions ← Expedition 33 Expedition 35 →

Crew

Position	First Part (November 2012)	Second Part (December 2012 to March 2013)
Commander	Kevin A. Ford, NASA Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Oleg Novitskiy, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA Only spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Thomas Marshburn, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Chris Hadfield, CSA Third and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Roman Romanenko, RSA Second and last spaceflight

Source

NASA^[1][2]

Mission objectives

Some of the science objectives included investigations of the human cardiovascular system in space, studies on fish and their sensation of gravity, and the impacts of solar radiation on Earth's climate. During the expedition, the robotic platform Robonaut, a humanoid robot test platform, continued testing.^[3]