Expedition 39

Expedition 39 was the 39th expedition to the International Space Station. It marked the first time the ISS had been under command of a Japanese astronaut, space veteran Koichi Wakata. After Expedition 21 in 2009 and Expedition 35 in 2013, it was only the third time an ISS crew was led by neither a NASA nor an RSA crew member.

Expedition 39

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	11 March 2014 (2014-03-11Z) UTC
Ended	13 May 2014 (2014-05-14Z) UTC
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-11M Soyuz TMA-12M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-11M Soyuz TMA-12M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 38/39: Koichi Wakata Richard A. Mastracchio Mikhail Tyurin Expedition 39/40: Aleksandr Skvortsov Oleg Artemyev Steven R. Swanson
Expedition 39 mission patch (l-r) Artemyev, Swanson, Skvortsov, Tyurin, Wakata and Mastracchio ISS expeditions ← Expedition 38 Expedition 40 →

During Expedition 39, Astronauts Mastracchio and Swanson installed the "Veggie" project on the International Space Station.^[1]

Crew

Position	First Part (March 2014)	Second Part (March 2014 to May 2014)
Commander	Koichi Wakata, JAXA Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Richard A. Mastracchio, NASA Fourth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Mikhail Tyurin, RSA Third and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Aleksandr Skvortsov, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Oleg Artemyev, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Steven R. Swanson, NASA Third and last spaceflight

Source

JAXA,^[2] NASA,^[3] ESA^[4]