Expedition 34 was the 34th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 18 November 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 33 crew to Earth.
Crew
PositionFirst Part(November 2012)Second Part(December 2012 to March 2013)Commander Kevin A. Ford, NASASecond and last spaceflightFlight Engineer 1 Oleg Novitskiy, RSAFirst spaceflightFlight Engineer 2 Evgeny Tarelkin, RSAOnly spaceflightFlight Engineer 3 Thomas Marshburn, NASASecond spaceflightFlight Engineer 4 Chris Hadfield, CSAThird and last spaceflightFlight Engineer 5 Roman Romanenko, RSASecond and last spaceflight
Source NASA
Mission objectives Some of the science objectives included investigations of the human cardiovascular system in space, studies on fish and their sensation of gravity, and the impacts of solar radiation on Earth's climate. During the expedition, the robotic platform Robonaut, a humanoid robot test platform, continued testing.
References
External links
NASA's Space Station Expeditions page