Image above: Expedition 23 crew members from the left are Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, all flight engineers; Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, commander; NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, both flight engineers. Image credit: NASA

Expedition 22

Commander Jeffrey Williams and flight engineers Maxim Suraev, Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi and Timothy J. (T.J.) Creamer will serve as the Expedition 22 crew aboard the International Space Station.

Image above: From the left (front row) are Commander Jeffrey Williams and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov, flight engineer. From the left (back row) are T.J. Creamer, Maxim Suraev and Soichi Noguchi, all flight engineers. Image credit: NASA

Expedition 22 began with the Soyuz TMA-15 undocking on Nov. 30, 2009.
Three new crew members will arrive in about three weeks on the Soyuz TMA-17.

Soyuz TMA-16
Crew: Jeff Williams, Maxim Suraev
Launch: Sept. 30, 2009
Docking: Oct. 2, 2009
Landing: March 18, 2010

Soyuz TMA-17
Crew: Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi, T.J. Creamer
Launch: Dec. 20, 2009
Docking: Dec. 22, 2009
Landing: May 2010


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expe-dition22/index.html



Station Crew Completes First Expedition 22 Spacewalk


Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov and Max Suraev completed the first spacewalk of the Expedition 22 mission at 10:49 a.m. EST Thursday, January 14.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 22 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as maintenance and construction continue on the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA

During the spacewalk, the two cosmonauts prepared the Mini-Research Module 2, known as Poisk, for future Russian vehicle dockings.

Suraev and Commander Jeff Williams will be the first to use the new docking port when they relocate their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda service module on January 21.

Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov works on a Russian Orlan spacesuit inside the Pirs Docking Compartment. Image credit: NASA

This was the third spacewalk for Kotov, who made two spacewalks in 2007 as an Expedition 15 flight engineer, and the first for Suraev.

Throughout the week, Kotov and Suraev completed a variety of tasks in anticipation of the spacewalk including resizing spacesuits, conducting routine spacesuit maintenance, configuring spacewalk equipment and conducting a suited “dry run” check Tuesday.


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expe-dition22/exp22_eva.html



Meet the Next International Space Station Crew

NASA Holds Briefing and One-On-One Media Interviews on January 21

HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a briefing for journalists with the next set of residents of the International Space Station at 1 p.m. CST Thursday, Jan. 21, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The briefings will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site.
Questions also will be taken from participating NASA locations.


Expedition 23


Commander Oleg Kotov and flight engineers Soichi Noguchi, Timothy J. (T.J.) Creamer, Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko will serve aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 23.

Expedition 23 begins with the Soyuz TMA-16 undocking in March 2010. Three new crew members will arrive shortly thereafter on Soyuz TMA-18.

Soyuz TMA-17
Crew: Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi, T.J. Creamer
Launch: Dec. 20, 2009
Docking: Dec. 22, 2009
Landing: May 2010

Soyuz TMA-18
Crew: Alexander Skvortsov, Mikhail Kornienko, Tracy Caldwell Dyson
Launch: April 2, 2010
Docking: April 4, 2010
Landing: Sept. 2010


The briefing participants are:

- Expedition 23 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson

- Expedition 23 Flight Engineer and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov

- Expedition 23 Flight Engineer and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko


Following the briefing, the crew members will be available for individual round-robin interviews, in person or by phone.
There also will be a photo opportunity.

To participate in the interviews, reporters should contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111, by 4 p.m. CST, Wednesday, Jan. 20.

U.S. and foreign nationals planning to attend the news briefing must contact the Johnson newsroom by 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, to arrange credentials.

On April 2, Skvortsov, Kornienko, and Caldwell Dyson will launch to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
They will dock to the space station on April 4, joining Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who arrived on the station in December as part of Expedition 22.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedules, and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv  

For the latest information about Expedition 23 and its crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station  


Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov  

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expe-dition23/index.html

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jan/HQ_M10-005_ISS_interviews.html