Expedition 40
Expedition 40 was the 40th expedition to the International Space Station. A portion of the Expedition 39 crew transferred to Expedition 40 while the remainder of the crew launched on May 28, 2014 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 13 May 2014 UTC |
Ended | 10 September 2014 UTC |
Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-12M Soyuz TMA-13M |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | Expedition 39/40: Steven R. Swanson Aleksandr Skvortsov Oleg Artemyev Expedition 40/41: Gregory R. Wiseman Maksim Surayev Alexander Gerst |
![]() Expedition 40 mission patch ![]() (l-r) Skvortsov, Swanson, Artemyev, Gerst, Surayev and Wiseman |
Upon achieving orbit approximately nine minutes after launch, Soyuz TMA-13M, delivering the remainder of the crew, began a four-orbit rendezvous with the International Space Station. Soyuz TMA-13M subsequently docked with the Rassvet module of the ISS at 1:44 UTC on May 29. Hatches were opened between the two spacecraft just over two hours later at 3:52 UTC. The expedition ended with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-12M on September 10, 2014. The remainder of Expedition 40's crew joined Expedition 41.[1]
Crew
Position | First Part (May 2014) |
Second Part (May 2014 to September 2014) | |
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Commander | ![]() Third and last spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 1 | ![]() Second spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 2 | ![]() First spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 3 | ![]() Second and last spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 4 | ![]() First spaceflight | ||
Flight Engineer 5 | ![]() First spaceflight | ||
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- ESA[2]
Mobile Servicing System
The Mobile Servicing System is a robotic system onboard the ISS used for assembly and maintenance. During Expedition 40, it was used the replace a broken camera on the system's mobile base with a deteriorated but functional camera from the arm, and to in turn place a new camera on the arm. This marked the first self-repair by a robot in space, and is likely to result in reduced need for time consuming and dangerous space walks. [3]

References
- "Station Trio Undocks Ending Expedition 40". NASA.gov. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- "ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst to fly to Space Station in 2014". ESA. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
- Chung, Emily. "Space robot's 'self-repair' means fewer spacewalks". CBC. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
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