Mission Objectives
The mission was to have conducted space walks on several occasions, using both NASA and Russian space suits.
On 28 July 2005 at 11:18 UTC the Space Shuttle mission STS-114 Orbiter docked and delivered a replacement Control Moment Gyroscope as part of the approximately 4.100 kg cargo carried inside the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) called Raffaello. On 6 August 2005 the Orbiter undocked from the ISS taking the MPLM back.
During the Expedition 11 mission, Russian Commander Sergei Krikalev exceeded the record for total time in space (formerly held by Sergei Avdeyev with 747.593 days). Krikalev at launch had spent 624.387 days in space. He passed the record on the 123rd day of the mission, on 16 August 2005. His cumulative time in space was 803 days and 9 hours and 39 minutes upon landing.
On 7 September 2005 the unpiloted Progress spacecraft 53 (P18) undocked from the station and was deorbited, to make way for the arrival of Progress 54 (P19) which docked in September 2008 and transferred around 2300 kg of cargo, (fuel, water, and dry cargo including oxygen generators) to the station.
On 3 October 2005 Soyuz TMA-7 docked bringing the Expedition 12 crew.
Thomas Reiter (ESA) was scheduled to join the mission in October 2005 on the supply mission STS-121 to the ISS, but due to that mission's delay until 2006 he became a crew member of Expedition 13.
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—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
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