Expedition 5

Expedition 5
Promotional poster
Mission typeLong-duration expedition
Mission duration178 days, 3 hours, 10 minutes (at ISS)
184 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes and 23 seconds (launch to landing)
Expedition
Space stationInternational Space Station
Began7 June 2002, 16:25 (2002-06-07UTC16:25Z) UTC
Ended2 December 2002, 20:05 (2002-12-02UTC20:06Z) UTC
Arrived aboardSTS-111
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Departed aboardSTS-113
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Crew
Crew size3
MembersValery Korzun
Peggy Whitson
Sergei Treshchev
EVAs2
EVA duration9 hours, 46 minutes

Expedition 5 mission patch

L-R: Valery G. Korzun, Peggy Whitson, and Sergei Y. Treshchev

Expedition 5 was the fifth long-duration stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The crew, consisting of three people, remained in space for 184 days, 178 of which were spent aboard the ISS. Expedition 5 was a continuation of an uninterrupted human presence in space, as of November 2000, which was begun by Expedition 1 in 2000–2001.

The crew of Expedition 5 launched to space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour aboard the STS-111 mission on 5 June 2002. Their tenure aboard the station, however, did not begin until they docked with the ISS two days later on 7 June.