Expedition 57

Occurred 6 years ago

Expedition 57 observed Earth's biodiversity, explored artificial intelligence for crews, and investigated a cancer treatment for tumor cells and vessels.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Alexander Gerst, Serena Auñon-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev, Anne McClain, Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques

Launch

June 6, 2018

Landing

Dec. 20, 2018

The official portrait of the five-member Expedition 57 crew. In the front row from left are Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Commander Alexander Gerst from the European Space Agency and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos. In the back row from left are Flight Engineers Aleksey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague from NASA.
NASA

The official insignia of the Expedition 57 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Alexander Gerst, Commander
Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Flight Engineer
Sergey Prokopyev, Flight Engineer
Anne McClain, Flight Engineer
Oleg Kononenko, Flight Engineer
David Saint-Jacques, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

12/20/18 – Exp 57 Land
12/8/18 – SpaceX CRS-16 Capture
12/5/18 – SpaceX CRS-16 Launch
12/3/18 – Exp 58 Launch/Dock
11/19/18 – Cygnus CRS-10 Capture
11/18/18 – ISS Progress 71 Dock
11/17/18 – Cygnus CRS-10 Launch
11/16/18 – ISS Progress 71 Launch
11/7/18 – HTV-7 Kounotori Release
10/11/18 – Exp 57/58 Anomaly

Spacewalks

Date: Dec. 11, 2018
Duration: 7 hours, 45 minutes
Spacewalkers: Oleg Kononenko, Sergey Prokopyev

Expedition 57 Image Gallery

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Expedition 57 Resources

Mission Blogs

The daily blog updates for Expedition 57 highlighting crew and cargo missions, spacewalks, and advanced space research.

The sun's first rays burst over the Earth's horizon

Mission Summary

Get an overview of the Expedition, its crew and the activities they are working on during this mission to the International Space Station.

The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) Growth and Extinction Limits (GEL) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) studies flame growth and extinction in an effort to improve fire safety in space. This image shows a sequence of snapshots taken about 3 seconds apart. During this test point, the ambient oxygen concentration starts relatively high (28%). Initially, the flame is seen as yellow and sooty. As the ambient pressure is reduced, the flame becomes bluer and continues to shrink until fully extinguished. This gives researchers pressure limit data points for flame extinction that could help improve crew and spacecraft safety for future exploration missions.

Mission Science

Learn more about the range of microgravity science encompassing human research, space phsyics, and more the Expedition 57 crew has conducted.

One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of 222 nautical miles above a point in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles off the coast of Africa near the Tropic of Cancer, photographed this eye-catching panorama of the night sky and the Milky Way on Sept. 27. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, flight engineer, tweeted the image, which was taken with an electronic still camera, set with a 24mm focal length. In his accompanying comments, Wiseman stated, "Sahara sands make the Earth glow orange."

Mission Imagery

During Expedition 57, the crew took images of the Earth views, the orbiting station, their daily lives aboard and the experiments they conducted during their stay, plus so much more. Check out some of the image highlights from Expedition 57 in the gallery.