Expedition 6
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| Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
|---|---|
| Mission duration | 159 days, 44 minutes (at ISS) 161 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes, 38 seconds (launch to landing) |
| Distance travelled | ~107,824,795 kilometres (66,999,221 mi) |
| Orbits completed | 2,536 |
| Expedition | |
| Space station | International Space Station |
| Began | 25 November 2002, 21:59 UTC |
| Ended | 3 May 2003, 22:43 UTC |
| Arrived aboard | STS-113 Space Shuttle Endeavour |
| Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-1 |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Kenneth Bowersox Nikolai Budarin Donald Pettit |
| EVAs | 2 |
| EVA duration | 13 hours, 17 minutes |
Expedition 6 mission patch L-R: Donald Pettit, Ken Bowersox and Nikolai Budarin | |
Expedition 6 was the sixth expedition to the International Space Station (25 November 2002 – 3 May 2003). It was the last three-man crew to reside on the station until the arrival of STS-121 in 2006, delivering the final astronaut of Expedition 13. The crew performed two spacewalks in support of maintenance and assembly of the International Space Station.