ISS Expedition 1

Mission data
Notes
Events
Photo gallery
Photo links
Links
Crew portraits

Sergei’s fifth mission was as part of the first International Space Station crew, Expedition 1.

Mission data

ISS-1 prime crew
МКС-1 основной экипаж
Name	Role	Origin
William McMichael Shepherd	ISS Commander Soyuz Flight Engineer-2	NASA, USA
Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko Юрий Павлович Гидзенко	ISS Pilot Soyuz Commander	GCTC, Russia
Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalyov Сергей Константинович Крикалёв	ISS Flight Engineer-2 Soyuz Flight Engineer-1	Energiya, Russia

ISS-1 backup crew
МКС-1 дублирующий экипаж
Name	Role	Origin
Kenneth Dwane Bowersox	ISS Commander Soyuz Flight Engineer-2	NASA, USA
Vladimir Nikolaevich Dezhurov Владимир Константинович Дежуров	ISS Pilot Soyuz Commander	GCTC, Russia
Mikhail Vladislavovich Tyurin Михаил Владиславович Тюрин	ISS Flight Engineer Soyuz Flight Engineer	Energiya, Russia

Flight details
Call-sign, позывной	Уран, Uran (“Uranus” – Yurii Gidzenko’s)
Launch	31 October 2000 at 07:52:47.241 UTC
Launch craft	Soyuz 7K-STM №205 rocket carrying the Soyuz TM-31 transport spacecraft
Launch site	Area 1, Launch Pad 5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Docking	2 November 2000 at 07:25 UTC to the Zvezda SM aft docking port
Undocking	18 March 2001 at 07:31 UTC from PMA-2
Landing	21 March 2001 at 07:31:42 UTC
Landing craft	OV-103 (Orbiter Discovery – STS-102/5A.1.)
Landing site	Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Rollout Distance	11 405 feet/3476.244 meters
Rollout Time	84 seconds
Revolution	102
Flight duration	140d 23h 38m 55s

Notes

Major Expedition tasks:

Activation of the Zvezda Service Module systems;
Equipment installation, Zvezda Module outfitting;
Maintenance of the Station functionality;
Support of Progress M1-4, Progress M-44 dockings and Space Shuttle flights 4A, 5A, 5A.1;
Progress and Space Shuttle unloading;
Support of Progress M1-4 undocking;
Integration of LAB (Unity) to the ISS and LAB outfitting;
Soyuz TM-31 relocation from SM to FGB;
Implementation of the Research and Experimental Program (Sprut-MBI, Paradont, Kardio-ODNT, Prognoz, Bradoz, Uragan, Identifikatsia, Izgib, Tenzor, Iskazheniye, Priviazka, Plazmenniy Kristall);
Crew handover to ISS-2 Expedition.

(Source: Energiya)

ISS commander Bill Shepherd, Soyuz pilot Yurii Gidzenko and flight engineer Sergei Krikalyov were the first Expedition Crew to stay on board the ISS. They came home on STS-102 Discovery, after being exchanged with the Expedition 2 crew.

Veteran cosmonaut Anatolii Solov’ev was originally assigned to the crew instead of Yurii Gidzenko, but Anatolii protested about the first ISS crew’s commander being an American on the-then mostly Russian station. The situation could not be changed, however (NASA was providing the bulk of the funding, and an American first commander would placate American taxpayers and Congress senators somewhat), so Anatolii resigned in exasperation.

From “Living on Alpha”, Jim Schefter, Popular Science, March 2001:

Krikalyov had been aboard before as part of the crew that linked the Unity module to the Russian-built Zvezda module. Zvezda, Krikalyov knows, isn’t the most comfortable spot in space. At 41 feet long, it’s about the size of a motor home and about as hospitable as a boiler room.

[…]

Getting around is wonderfully easy. “It takes very little energy,” Krikalyov says. A finger-flick against a bulkhead is enough to propel him down the broad Zvezda aisle, and a hand barely touching almost anything is enough to put on the brakes.

From “Muddling Through on the Final Frontier”, James Oberg, New Scientist, 14 July 2001:

Krikalyov, though, complained vociferously about the carbon dioxide scrubber in the Russian-built Service Module where the crew lived, which repeatedly woke them up during the night. The worst thing about it, he said, was that it was not continuous, but blasted loudly every ten minutes. “In the Mir it was located in a different module,” Krikalyov pointed out. “I always said that having it in the Service Module was not a good idea.”

Events

Launches during Expedition 1’s mission
Mission	Launch	Landing	Purpose
Progress M1-4	16 November 2000	8 February 2001 (burned up)	Cargo supplies delivery
STS-97/4A Endeavour	30 November 2000	11 December 2000	Deliver and install P6 Integrated Truss Structure (two sets of solar arrays)
STS-98/5A Atlantis	7 February 2001	20 February 2001	Deliver and install U.S. Destiny Lab
Progress M-44	26 February 2001	16 April 2001(burned up)	Cargo supplies delivery
STS-102/5A.1 Discovery	8 March 2001	21 March 2001	Expedition Crew exchange (1-2). MPLM Leonardo cargo delivery.

Photo gallery

NASA

These two photos I found by doing a Google image search. They were taken during the Expedition 1 mission, but for some reason weren’t posted in the NASA gallery.

Sergei in his kayuta (cabin) with the Ear-Q hearing testing device.

Sergei on the amateur radio in Zarya. (His callsign is U5MIR.)

Omega watches

ISS-1: Omega watches had a gallery page, but this seems to have gone, with only the ISS-1 page left, so the Sergei photos there are below. These were not featured in the NASA gallery. They are only low-resolution photos, though. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Space Adventures

Two photos from the Greg Olsen/Space Adventures site.

Hydrolab training: Sergei with a spacesuited companion – Yurii Gidzenko – in the hydrolab.

Vestibular chair: this is intended to condition a cosmonaut’s inner ears to zero-g and (hopefully) stop him getting spacesick.

Photo links

Energiya

Expedition 1 preflight photos
Sergei’s family photos
Energiya photo-report, 4 April 2001: “On April 4, 2001 Russian cosmonauts – crew members of the long-duration Expedition One to the ISS – S.K. Krikalyov and Yu.P. Gidzenko came back home. At the Cosmonaut Training Center they were met by Yu.P. Semenov, President, General Designer of S.P.Korolev RSC Energiya, P.I. Klimuk, Director of Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, cosmonauts, relatives and friends.”

NASA photos

Here are all photos in the NASA Expedition 1 Gallery with Sergei in them!!

Earth Observations Laboratory

ISS001-E-5342: “Window Observational Research Facility: The Space Shuttle Atlantis landed today (February 20, 2001) after a 13-day mission. During this flight, the shuttle astronauts installed a new science module, the Destiny Laboratory, on the International Space Station. The laboratory features an earth-observing window with the highest quality optics ever flown on a human-occupied spacecraft.” Sergei looks out the Observation Window in this photo (which is 50.8 cm in diameter and cost around U.S.$700 000.)

Plasma Crystal Experiment

Expedition 1 carried out the Plasma Crystal experiment during their stay.

Photos of the Press conference with the first and third crew of the International Space Station November 1/2, 1999
MPE18A-3 (91 KB): Participants in the experiment. “Left to right: Prof. G. Morfill, Sergej Krikalyov, Prof. A. Nefedov+, William Sheperd, Reiner Klett (Kayser-Threde) und Frau, Yuri Gidzenko, Mikhael Turin, Vladimir Dezhurov.”

September 2000: Training of ISS crews 1 & 3 in Moscow.

First and third Expedition Crews with the PKE experiment
IHED: DSCN0035, P001133, P001135, P001137, P001143, P001145, P001146, P001148, P001160, P001164, P001171
KIS: P001258, P001270

1 November 2000: Expedition 1 launch at Baikonur.

exp1_103100_002 (576 KB): as is the tradition before departure, the crew get blessed by an Orthodox priest!
exp1_103000_003 (701 KB): thumbs-up from the crew.

March 2001. Operation of “PKE Nefedov”. Pictures from the ISS:

PKE1Krik (225 KB): “Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov with the PKE-Nefedov experiment block (60 kg!) onboard the International Spacestation ISS, March 2001.”
PKE2Krik (191 KB): “Sergei studying the PKE user manual while floating beside the Telescience Unit (control and data acquisition unit) of PKE-Nefedov (right side). (Note: Above, a model of the building state of the ISS, then.)”

Crew portraits

Official crew photos and patches.

Expedition 1 mission patch.

Expedition 1 portrait in Sokol spacesuits. Left to right: S. Krikalyov, W. Shepherd, Yu. Gidzenko.

Soyuz TM-31 crew portrait (Loty Kosmiczne)

Expedition 1 crew photo.