 Bresnik launched aboard Soyuz MS-05 to the ISS on 28 July 2017, and served as Flight Engineer for Expedition 52, and as ISS Commander for Expedition 53.On October 5, 2017, Bresnik performed his third spacewalk, along with Mark Vande Hei.The spacewalk replaced the gripping mechanism on Canadarm2, the latching end effector A, or LEE-A.