Expedition 59

ISS Expedition 59
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Mission type	ISS Expedition
Mission duration	101d 22h 24m
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	15 March 2019 01:01 UTC
Ended	24 June 2019 23:25 UTC
Arrived aboard	Soyuz MS-11 ; Soyuz MS-12
Departed aboard	Soyuz MS-11
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 58/59:; Oleg Kononenko; David Saint-Jacques; Anne McClain; Expedition 59/60:; Aleksey Ovchinin; Nick Hague; Expedition 59/60/61:; Christina Koch;
EVAs	4
EVA duration	25h 55min
	; Expedition 59 mission patch; ; (l-r) Saint-Jacques, McClain, Kononenko, Ovchinin, Hague and Koch ISS expeditions ← Expedition 58 Expedition 60 →

Expedition 59 was the 59th Expedition to the International Space Station. It started with the arrival of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft carrying Aleksey Ovchinin, Nick Hague and Christina Koch,^[3] joining Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain who transferred from Expedition 58. The expedition formally began on March 15, 2019 (March 14 in the Americas).^[1] Ovchinin and Hague were originally meant to fly to the ISS aboard Soyuz MS-10, but returned to Earth minutes after takeoff due to a contingency abort.^[4] The expedition formally ended with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft carrying Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain on 24 June 2019; Ovchinin, Hague and Koch transferred to Expedition 60.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Moran, Noah (March 14, 2019). "Soyuz Docked to Space Station". NASA Blogs.
^ ^a ^b "NASA Astronaut Anne McClain, Crewmates Return from Space Station Mission". NASA. June 24, 2019.
^ Gebhardt, Chris (March 14, 2019). "Soyuz MS-12 docks with the Space Station – NASASpaceFlight.com". NASASpaceflight.com.
^ Strickland, Ashley (March 15, 2019). "New crew launches to space station". cnn.com. Cable News Network. Retrieved March 17, 2019. Hague and Ovchinin are getting a second chance after their original October 11 launch failed. Shortly after launch, there was an anomaly with the booster, and the launch ascent was aborted, resulting in a ballistic landing of the spacecraft, according to a NASA statement.