Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
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Jay Bolden
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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RELEASE: 13-017

CORRECTION: NASA, SPACE STATION PARTNERS ANNOUNCE FUTURE CREW MEMBERS

Corrected to update crew mission dates

HOUSTON -- NASA and its international partners have named several
future International Space Station expedition crews. They include
NASA astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman, Barry Wilmore and Terry
Virts.

Swanson was born in Syracuse, N.Y., but considers Steamboat Springs,
Colo., his hometown. Wiseman is from Baltimore and is a commander in
the U.S. Navy. Wilmore, a captain in the U.S. Navy, is from Mount
Juliet, Tenn. Virts, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was born in
Baltimore, but considers Columbia, Md., his hometown.

Swanson and his two Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) crewmates
will join Expedition 39 in progress. That expedition will begin in
mid-March 2014. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut
Koichi Wakata, the expedition's commander; NASA's Richard
Mastracchio; and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin already will be
aboard.

Swanson and his crewmates are scheduled to launch in late-March 2014.
Expedition 39 will consist of the following crew members:

-- Wakata, station commander
-- Mastracchio, flight engineer
-- Tyurin, flight engineer
-- Swanson, flight engineer
-- Alexander Skvortsov of Roscomos, flight engineer
-- Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, flight engineer

Expedition 40 will begin in mid-May 2014. The second half of the crew
is scheduled to launch in late-May 2014. Expedition 40 will consist
of the following crew members:

-- Swanson, station commander
-- Skvortsov, flight engineer
-- Artemyev, flight engineer
-- Wiseman, flight engineer
-- Maxim Suraev of Roscosmos, flight engineer
-- Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA), flight engineer


Expedition 41 will begin in September 2014. The remainder of the crew
is scheduled to launch in October 2014. Expedition 41 will consist of
the following crew members:

-- Suraev, station commander
-- Wiseman, flight engineer
-- Gerst, flight engineer
-- Wilmore, flight engineer
-- Yelena Serova of Roscosmos, flight engineer
-- Alexander Samoukutyaev of Roscosmos, flight engineer

Expedition 42 will begin in mid-November 2014. The other half of the
team is scheduled to launch in late-November 2014. Once on the
station, Expedition 42 will include the following crew members:

-- Wilmore, station commander
-- Serova, flight engineer
-- Samoukutyaev, flight engineer
-- Virts, flight engineer
-- Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA, flight engineer

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