Expedition 49

Expedition 49 was the 49th expedition to the International Space Station.

Expedition 49

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	6 September 2016 (2016-09-06Z) UTC
Ended	30 October 2016 (2016-10-31Z) UTC[1]
Arrived aboard	Soyuz MS-01 Soyuz MS-02
Departed aboard	Soyuz MS-01 Soyuz MS-02
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 48/49: Kathleen Rubins Anatoli Ivanishin Takuya Onishi Expedition 49/50: Shane Kimbrough Andrei Borisenko Sergey Ryzhikov
Expedition 49 mission patch (l-r) Ryzhikov, Kimbrough, Borisenko, Rubins, Ivanishin, Onishi ISS expeditions ← Expedition 48 Expedition 50 →

Anatoli Ivanishin, Kathleen Rubins and Takuya Onishi transferred from Expedition 48. Expedition 49 began upon the departure of Soyuz TMA-20M on September 6, 2016 and concluded upon the departure of Soyuz MS-01 in October 2016. The crew of Soyuz MS-02 then transferred to Expedition 50.^[2][3][4]

Crew

Position	First Part (September to October 2016)	Second Part (October 2016)
Commander	Anatoli Ivanishin, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Kathleen Rubins, NASA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Takuya Onishi, JAXA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Shane Kimbrough, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Andrei Borisenko, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Sergey Ryzhikov, RSA First spaceflight

Notes

One US Segment based EVA was planned for Expedition 49, this was later postponed.

A soccer ball belonging to Ellison Onizuka who was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was brought to the ISS by Shane Kimbrough.^[5]