Expedition 25

Expedition 25

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Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	25 September 2010, 02:02 (2010-09-25UTC02:02Z) UTC
Ended	26 November 2010, 04:46 (2010-11-26UTC04:47Z) UTC[1]
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-19 Soyuz TMA-01M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-19 Soyuz TMA-01M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 24/25: Douglas H. Wheelock Shannon Walker Fyodor Yurchikhin Expedition 25/26: Scott J. Kelly Aleksandr Kaleri Oleg Skripochka
EVAs	1
EVA duration	6 hours, 27 minutes
Expedition 25 mission patch (l-r) Skripochka, Kaleri, Kelly, Wheelock, Walker and Yurchikhin ISS expeditions ← Expedition 24 Expedition 26 →

Expedition 25 was the 25th long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 25 began with the Soyuz TMA-18 undocking on 25 September 2010. Three new crewmembers (Scott Kelly, Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka) arrived aboard the ISS 10 October 2010 on Soyuz TMA-01M to join Douglas Wheelock, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Shannon Walker, and formed the full six member crew of Expedition 25.^[2] NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock accepted command of Expedition 25 on 22 September 2010, taking over from Russia's Aleksandr Skvortsov. The departure of Wheelock, Walker and Yurchikhin on 25 November 2010 marked the official end of Expedition 25.

During Expedition 25 Progress M-08M spacecraft visited the ISS, docking with the space station on 30 October 2010 bringing 2.5 tons of cargo supplies. Space shuttle Discovery on STS-133 mission was scheduled to arrive at the ISS on 3 November 2010 but was rescheduled for launch on 3 February 2011. The 10th anniversary of human life, work and research on the ISS fell during Expedition 25. On 2 November 2000, Expedition 1 commander William Shepherd and flight engineers Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko became the first residents of the space station. Expedition 25 ended on 26 November.