The Hidden Crisis: Expedition 33 When Was the Fracture Revealed?
The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on July 17, 2012, carrying Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams, Yuri Malenchenko, and Akihiko Hoshide. What began as a routine mission soon spiraled into a high-stakes engineering crisis when a fracture—unseen from Earth—threatened the station’s structural integrity. The question “expedition 33 when was the … Read more
