Commander Oleg Kotov, veteran of two previous station missions, leads
Expedition 38 as the six-member crew conducts advanced microgravity
research aboard the International Space Station. Flight Engineers Mike
Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy, who launched with Kotov Sept. 25, are
both on their first spaceflight missions.
Flight Engineers Rick
Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata and Mikhail Tyurin delivered the Olympic
torch to the station Nov. 6. Kotov and Ryazanskiy carried the torch
outside the station during a spacewalk Nov. 9.
Expedition 36/37
crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin, Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano returned
the torch when they landed in Kazakhstan Nov. 10 as part of the
traditional relay leading up to to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi,
Russia.
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