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ISS Expedition 33
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Mission type	ISS Expedition
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	16 September 2012, 23:09 UTC
Ended	18 November 2012
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-05M; Soyuz TMA-06M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-05M; Soyuz TMA-06M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 32/33:; Sunita Williams; Yuri Malenchenko; Akihiko Hoshide; ; Expedition 33/34:; Kevin A. Ford; Oleg Novitskiy; Evgeny Tarelkin
	; Expedition 33 mission patch; ; (l-r) Williams, Malenchenko, Hoshide, Tarelkin, Novitskiy and Ford ISS expeditions ← Expedition 32 Expedition 34 →

Expedition 33 was the 33rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 16 September 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 32 crew to Earth.^[1]

Crew edit

Position	First Part (September–October 2012)	Second Part (October–November 2012)
Commander	Sunita Williams, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Yuri Malenchenko, RSA Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3		Kevin A. Ford, NASA Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Oleg Novitskiy, RSA First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Evgeny Tarelkin, RSA Only spaceflight

CubeSats launched by Expedition 33 crew on 4 October 2012.

The crew successfully experimented with the Delay-tolerant networking protocol and managed to control a Lego robot on earth from space.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Expedition 33". National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
^ NASA HQ (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
^ "Astronaut Bio: Sunita Williams". NASA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
^ "Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew". JAXA. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
^ "NASA, ESA Use Experimental Interplanetary Internet to Test Robot from International Space Station". 7 April 2015.