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Final flight of Atlantis. Final mission of the Space Shuttle. 290 Anton Shkaplerov (1) Anatoli Ivanishin (1) Dan Burbank (3) 14 November 2011 Soyuz TMA-22: ISS (crew 29/30) 27 April 2012 Soyuz TMA-22: ISS crew rotation. 291 Oleg Kononenko (2) André Kuipers (2) Donald Pettit (3) 21 December 2011 Soyuz TMA-03M: ISS (crew 30/31) 1 July 2012 Soyuz ...
The year 2011 saw a number of significant events in spaceflight, including the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle after its final flight in July 2011, and the launch of China's first space station module, Tiangong-1, in September. A total of 84 orbital launches were conducted over the course of the year, of which 78 were successful.
Expedition 30 was the 30th long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The expedition's first three crew members – Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoli Ivanishin – arrived on the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-22 on 16 November 2011, [3] during the last phase of Expedition 29.
Soyuz TMA-22, which brought the remaining three Expedition 29 crew members to the ISS, was originally scheduled to launch in September 2011, but due to the launch failure of the Progress M-12M resupply vehicle on 24 August, its launch was delayed to 14 November. [2] It docked successfully with the ISS on 16 November 2011. [3]
U.S. Space Shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more U.S. short-term human visits until the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020, Soyuz was the sole means of human transport to the ISS, delivering mostly long-term crew.
Expedition 27 was the 27th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), starting on 16 March 2011. Expedition 27 saw numerous notable events, including the undocking of the Progress M-09M and Kounotori 2 spacecraft, the arrival of the Soyuz TMA-21 and Progress M-10M spacecraft, and the final rendezvous with the ISS of NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour, on its last mission ...
Expedition 28 was the 28th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station, and began on 23 May 2011 with the departure of the members of Expedition 27.The first three members of Expedition 28 arrived on the ISS aboard the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft on 4 April 2011, and were joined on 9 June 2011 by the three other crew members, who arrived aboard Soyuz TMA-02M. [1]
On flight day 16, the members of Space Shuttle Endeavour ' s STS-134 crew continued preparations for the shuttle's landing on flight day 17. Commander Mark Kelly , pilot Greg Johnson and mission specialist and flight engineer Roberto Vittori performed a checkout of Endeavour ' s Flight Control Systems (FCS).