Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
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Mission duration | 7 months, 3 days (at ISS) 215 days 8 hours (López-Alegría/Tyurin) (launch to landing) |
Orbits completed | 3,401 (López-Alegría/Tyurin) |
Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 18 September 2006, 04:09 | UTC
Ended | 21 April 2007, 12:31 | UTC
Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-9 Reiter: STS-121 Space Shuttle Discovery Williams STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-9 Reiter: STS-116 Space Shuttle Discovery Williams STS-117 Space Shuttle Atlantis |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Michael López-Alegría Mikhail Tyurin Thomas Reiter* (until December) Sunita Williams† (from December) * – transferred from Expedition 13 † – transferred to Expedition 15 |
EVAs | 5 |
Expedition 14 mission patch Sunita Williams, Mikhail Tyurin and Michael López-Alegría, mission commander of Expedition 14. |
Expedition 14 was the 14th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Commander Michael López-Alegría, and flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 September 2006, 04:09 UTC, aboard Soyuz TMA-9. They joined Thomas Reiter, who had arrived at the ISS on 6 July 2006 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during mission STS-121. In December 2006, Discovery mission STS-116 brought Sunita Williams to replace Reiter as the third member of Expedition 14. On 21 April 2007, López-Alegría and Tyurin returned to Earth aboard TMA-9. Landing occurred at 12:31:30 UTC.