Expedition 5

Occurred 22 years ago

The fifth Expedition aboard the orbital outpost explored how microgravity affects plants and the human body to learn how to live long term in space. The International Space Station trio also photographed the Earth for scientific and student research among many other research activities.

Mission Type

Humans in Space

meet the crew

Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson, Sergei Treschev

Launch

June 5, 2002

Landing

Dec. 7, 2002

Cosmonaut Valery G. Korzun (left), Expedition Five mission commander; Astronaut Peggy A. Whitson and Cosmonaut Sergei Y. Treschev, both flight engineers, attired in training versions of the shuttle launch and entry suit, pause from their training schedule for a crew portrait.
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The official insignia of the Expedition 5 mission aboard the International Space Station.
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Crew Members

Valery Korzun, Commander
Peggy Whitson, Flight Engineer
Sergei Treschev, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

12/7/02 – STS-113 Landing
11/25/02 – STS-113 Docking
11/9/02 – Soyuz TM-34 Undock
11/1/02 – Soyuz TMA-1 Dock
10/16/02 – STS-112 Undock
10/9/02 – STS-112 Dock
9/29/02 – ISS Progress 9 Dock
9/25/02 – ISS Progress 9 Launch
9/24/02 – ISS Progress 8 Undock
6/29/02 – ISS Progress 8 Dock

Spacewalks

Date: Nov. 30, 2002
Duration: 7 hours, 0 minutes
Spacewalkers: Michael Lopez-Alegria, John Herrington

Date: Nov. 28, 2002
Duration: 6 hours, 10 minutes
Spacewalkers: Michael Lopez-Alegria, John Herrington

Date: Nov. 26, 2002
Duration: 6 hours, 45 minutes
Spacewalkers: Michael Lopez-Alegria, John Herrington

Date: Oct. 14, 2002
Duration: 6 hours, 36 minutes
Spacewalkers: David Wolf, Piers Sellers

Date: Oct. 12, 2002
Duration: 6 hours, 4 minutes
Spacewalkers: David Wolf, Piers Sellers

Date: Oct. 10, 2002
Duration: 7 hours, 1 minute
Spacewalkers: David Wolf, Piers Sellers

Date: Aug. 26, 2002
Duration: 5 hours, 21 minutes
Spacewalkers: Valery Korzun, Sergei Treschev

Date: Aug. 16, 2002
Duration: 4 hours, 25 minutes
Spacewalkers: Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson

Expedition 5 Resources

Status Reports

Expedition 5 Status Reports from June 2002 through November 2002.

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 5 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 5, 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 5 in the gallery.