List of ISS expeditions

This is the chronological list of the ISS expeditions , the long-term crews on the International Space Station .
Further details can be found in the list of ISS commanders , the list of manned ISS missions and the list of space travelers on the ISS . The latter two also list short-term visitors.
Explanations
The names of the ISS expeditions are followed by a list of the crew members. After the names of the members, the number of space flights they have taken is noted in brackets. The abbreviations CDR and BI that follow indicate the functions of the ISS commander and the flight engineers. The term “flight engineer” should not be confused with the function of the same name in aviation - every ISS expedition member who is not currently in the role of commander is called “flight engineer”.
The further structure of the list changes from Expedition 21/22:
- Successive expeditions up to expedition 20 overlap each other by one to two weeks. Therefore, the period of each expedition is given in full with the beginning, duration and end.
- All expeditions from No. 21 onwards go directly into one another; the end time of one expedition is identical to the start of the next. To save space and provide a better overview, only the duration and the end of each expedition are given from Expedition 22 onwards. In addition, the arrival times of the space travelers - which are no longer identical with the start of an expedition - are given separately from Expedition 21 onwards.
All dates refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
The typical length of stay for each crew member is around six months. Half of the available places go to space travelers from NASA and Roskosmos , with NASA passing on parts of its contingent to the international partners. As with other resources on the ISS, 12.8% go to JAXA , 8.3% to ESA and 2.3% to CSA .
Previous expeditions
Expeditions 1 to 6
The participants of the first expedition reached the station on November 2, 2000 with the Russian Soyuz spacecraft TM-31, which also served as a return vehicle in an emergency. On the following expeditions, the crew was exchanged while visiting an American space shuttle . The Soyuz capsule was replaced by three-person visiting missions. Since the replacement teams each arrived about a week before the planned return of the previous crew, the expeditions overlapped around this period.
emblem | Team photo | Members | Beginning | Duration | The End | ||
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docking with Soyuz TM-31 |
Nov. 2, 2000 136.8 days |
Decoupling of STS-102 |
19 Mar 2001 ||||
ISS expedition 2 | |||||||
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coupling of STS-102 |
10 Mar 2001 163.3 days |
Decoupling of STS-105 |
Aug. 20, 2001 ||||
ISS expedition 3 | |||||||
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coupling STS-105 |
Aug. 12, 2001 124.9 days |
Decoupling of STS-108 |
Dec. 15, 2001 ||||
ISS expedition 4 | |||||||
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coupling STS-108 |
7th Dec. 2001 189.8 days |
Decoupling of STS-111 |
June 15, 2002 ||||
ISS expedition 5 | |||||||
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coupling STS-111 |
June 7, 2002 178.2 days |
Decoupling of STS-113 |
Dec. 2, 2002 ||||
ISS expedition 6 | |||||||
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Coupling STS-113 |
Nov. 25, 2002 159.0 days |
Soyuz TMA-1 decoupling |
May 3, 2003
Expeditions 7 to 12
The space shuttle Columbia crashed on February 1, 2003. As a result, further flights of the space shuttle fleet were canceled until July 2005. From Expedition 7 onwards, the crew was therefore exchanged using the Soyuz capsules. In order to guarantee the supply even without shuttle flights, the team strength of the expeditions was reduced from three to two members.
The expeditions began with the docking of the feeder spaceship and ended with its decoupling for the return flight. Since the replacement team arrived about a week before the planned return of the previous crew, the expeditions overlapped around this period.
emblem | Team photo | Members | Beginning | Duration | The End | ||
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ISS expedition 7 | |||||||
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Soyuz TMA-2 docking |
Apr. 28, 2003 182.7 days |
Soyuz TMA-2 decoupling |
Oct. 27, 2003 ||||
ISS expedition 8 | |||||||
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Soyuz TMA-3 docking |
Oct. 20, 2003 192.6 days |
Soyuz TMA-3 decoupling |
Apr. 29, 2004 ||||
ISS expedition 9 | |||||||
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Docking Soyuz TMA-4 |
Apr. 21, 2004 185.7 days |
Soyuz TMA-4 decoupling |
Oct. 23, 2004 ||||
ISS expedition 10 | |||||||
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Soyuz TMA-5 docking |
October 16, 2004 190.6 days |
Soyuz TMA-5 decoupling |
Apr. 24, 2005 ||||
ISS expedition 11 | |||||||
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Soyuz TMA-6 docking |
Apr 17, 2005 176.8 days |
Soyuz TMA-6 decoupling |
October 10, 2005 ||||
ISS expedition 12 | |||||||
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Soyuz TMA-7 docking |
Oct. 3, 2005 187.6 days |
Soyuz TMA-7 decoupling |
Apr 8, 2006
Expeditions 13 to 19
On July 26, 2005, the Discovery launched a space shuttle for the first time since the Columbia crashed. Almost a year later, on July 4, 2006, the Discovery brought ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter to the ISS, increasing the permanent crew to three members. The commander and the first flight engineer continued to be exchanged with the Soyuz spaceships, while the second flight engineer was exchanged for the shuttle missions that are now regularly starting again.
The expedition periods continued to correspond to the periods of presence of the Soyuz crews, while the shuttle astronauts arrived on interim dates and sometimes took part in two expeditions. (The data of the expeditions are shown below in black font, the independent data of the shuttle flights in gray .)
emblem | Team photo | Members | Beginning | Duration | The End | ||
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ISS expedition 13 | |||||||
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Soyuz TMA-8 docking |
Apr. 1, 2006 180.7 days |
Soyuz TMA-8 decoupling |
28 Sep 2006 ||||
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docking with STS-121 |
July 6, 2006 166.3 days |
Decoupling STS-116 |
Dec. 19, 2006 ||||
ISS expedition 14 | |||||||
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coupling of Soyuz TMA-9 |
Sep 20 2006 213.2 days |
Soyuz TMA-9 decoupling |
Apr. 21, 2007 ||||
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docking with STS-116 |
Dec. 11, 2006 189.7 days |
Decoupling of STS-117 |
June 19, 2007 ||||
ISS expedition 15 | |||||||
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coupling Soyuz TMA-10 |
Apr. 9, 2007 194.5 days |
Soyuz TMA-10 decoupling |
Oct. 21, 2007 ||||
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coupling STS-117 |
June 10, 2007 147.6 days |
Decoupling of STS-120 |
Nov. 5, 2007 ||||
ISS expedition 16 | |||||||
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docking with Soyuz TMA-11 |
Oct. 12, 2007 189.6 days |
Soyuz TMA-11 decoupling |
Apr 19, 2008 ||||
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coupling STS-120 |
Oct. 25, 2007 115.9 days |
Decoupling of STS-122 |
Feb. 18, 2008 ||||
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coupling STS-122 |
Feb. 9, 2008 44.3 days |
Decoupling of STS-123 |
25th Mar 2008 ||||
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coupling of STS-123 |
13 Mar 2008 90.3 days |
Decoupling of STS-124 |
June 11, 2008 ||||
ISS expedition 17 | |||||||
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docking with Soyuz TMA-12 |
Apr 10, 2008
196.5 days |
Soyuz TMA-12 decoupling |
Oct. 24, 2008 ||||
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coupling STS-124 |
June 2, 2008 178.9 days |
Decoupling of STS-126 |
Nov 28, 2008 ||||
ISS expedition 18 | |||||||
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Docking Soyuz TMA-13 |
Oct. 14, 2008 175.8 days |
Soyuz TMA-13 decoupling |
Apr 8, 2009 ||||
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coupling STS-126 |
Nov. 16, 2008 128.9 days |
Decoupling of STS-119 |
25th Mar 2009 ||||
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coupling of STS-119 |
17th Mar 2009 132.8 days |
Decoupling STS-127 |
July 28, 2009 ||||
ISS expedition 19 | |||||||
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Soyuz TMA-14 coupling |
28 Mar 2009 62.0 days |
Docking Soyuz TMA-15 |
May 29, 2009
Expeditions 20 and 21
Since May 2009, the ISS crew has normally consisted of six people. Correspondingly, two Soyuz capsules are always coupled as return vehicles. Three crew members are replaced every two or four months. The command then passes to one of the remaining spacemen and the numbering changes. Each crew member belongs to two expeditions. Most of the crew will be transported by Soyuz spaceships, but some will continue to be exchanged during shuttle missions.
From expedition 20 onwards, the expedition periods no longer overlap; instead, the decoupling of a Soyuz spaceship marks the transition to the next expedition. Expedition 20 began for the last time with the coupling of a Soyuz capsule. (The arrival dates of the space travelers are therefore given separately from Expedition 21; they can no longer be read from the expedition periods.)
emblem | Team photo | Members | Beginning | Duration | The End | |||
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ISS expedition 20 |
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Docking Soyuz TMA-15 |
May 29, 2009 134.5 days |
Soyuz TMA-14 decoupling |
Oct. 11, 2009 |||
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docking with STS-127 |
July 17, 2009 53.1 days |
Decoupling of STS-128 |
8 Sep 2009 |||||
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coupling STS-128 |
Aug. 31, 2009 86.4 days |
Decoupling of STS-129 |
Nov 25, 2009 |||||
ISS expedition 21 | ||||||||
Arrival Oct. 2, 2009 with Soyuz TMA-16
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Soyuz TMA-14 decoupling |
Oct. 11, 2009 51.1 days |
Soyuz TMA-15 decoupling |
Dec. 1, 2009
Expeditions 22 to 42
With the end of the space shuttle program in 2011, long-term crews will be exchanged exclusively via the Russian Soyuz spaceships until further notice.
Since No. 21, the expeditions no longer begin with the arrival of new spacemen, but with the end of the previous expedition. The arrival times of the participants are therefore no longer evident from the expedition data and are mentioned separately in the list. The length of stay of the space travelers can be found in the Soyuz Articles or the list of manned missions to the International Space Station ; it no longer corresponds to the duration of the expeditions.
emblem | Team photo | Members | Duration | The End | |
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ISS expedition 22 |
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from Dec. 22, 2009 - Soyuz TMA-17
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107.2 days |
Soyuz TMA-16 decoupling |
18 Mar 2010 |
ISS expedition 23 | |||||
from April 4, 2010 - Soyuz TMA-18
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75.7 days |
Soyuz TMA-17 decoupling |
June 2, 2010 |||
ISS expedition 24 | |||||
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from June 17, 2010 - Soyuz TMA-19
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115.1 days |
Soyuz TMA-18 decoupling |
25 Sep 2010 |
ISS expedition 25 | |||||
from Oct. 10, 2010 - Soyuz TMA-01M
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62.0 days |
Soyuz TMA-19 decoupling |
Nov 26, 2010 |||
ISS expedition 26 | |||||
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from Dec. 17, 2010 - Soyuz TMA-20
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110.1 days |
Soyuz TMA-01M decoupling |
16. Mar. 2011 ||
ISS expedition 27 | |||||
from April 6, 2011 - Soyuz TMA-21
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68.7 days |
Soyuz TMA-20 decoupling |
May 23, 2011 |||
ISS expedition 28 | |||||
from June 9, 2011 - Soyuz TMA-02M
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115.1 days |
Soyuz TMA-21 decoupling |
17 Sep 2011 |||
ISS expedition 29 | |||||
from Nov. 16, 2011 - Soyuz TMA-22
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66.9 days |
Soyuz TMA-02M decoupling |
Nov 21, 2011 |||
ISS expedition 30 | |||||
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from 23rd Dec. 2011 - Soyuz TMA-03M
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157.4 days |
Soyuz TMA-22 decoupling |
Apr. 27, 2012 |
ISS expedition 31 | |||||
from May 17, 2012 - Soyuz TMA-04M
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64.9 days |
Soyuz TMA-03M decoupling |
July 1, 2012 |||
ISS expedition 32 | |||||
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from July 17, 2012 - Soyuz TMA-05M
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77.8 days |
Soyuz TMA-04M decoupling |
16 Sep 2012 |
ISS expedition 33 | |||||
from Oct 25, 2012 - Soyuz TMA-06M
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63.0 days |
Soyuz TMA-05M decoupling |
Nov. 18, 2012 |||
ISS expedition 34 | |||||
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from Dec. 21, 2012 - Soyuz TMA-07M
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117.1 days |
Soyuz TMA-06M decoupling |
15th Mar 2013 |
ISS expedition 35 | |||||
from March 29, 2013 - Soyuz TMA-08M
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59.0 days |
Soyuz TMA-07M decoupling |
May 13, 2013 |||
ISS expedition 36 | |||||
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from May 29, 2013 - Soyuz TMA-09M
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120.0 days |
Soyuz TMA-08M decoupling |
Sep 10 2013 |
ISS expedition 37 | |||||
from 26 Sep 2013 - Soyuz TMA-10M
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61.0 days |
Soyuz TMA-09M decoupling |
Nov 10, 2013 |||
ISS expedition 38 |
from Nov. 7, 2013 - Soyuz TMA-11M
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120.0 days |
Soyuz TMA-10M decoupling |
11th Mar 2014 ||
ISS expedition 39 | |||||
from March 27, 2014 - Soyuz TMA-12M
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63.9 days |
Soyuz TMA-11M decoupling |
May 13, 2014 |||
ISS expedition 40 | |||||
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from May 29, 2014 - Soyuz TMA-13M
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120.0 days |
Soyuz TMA-12M decoupling |
Sep 10 2014 |
ISS expedition 41 | |||||
from 26 Sep 2014 - Soyuz TMA-14M
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60.1 days |
Soyuz TMA-13M decoupling |
Nov 10, 2014 |||
ISS expedition 42 | |||||
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from Nov. 24, 2014 - Soyuz TMA-15M
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121.9 days |
Soyuz TMA-14M decoupling |
11th Mar 2015
Expeditions 43 to 46 (with annual mission)
As a one-off experiment as part of the NASA Twins Study , Michail Kornijenko and Scott Kelly's time was extended from six to twelve months. This left two places available for short-term stays, which were filled by the Dane Andreas Mogensen and the Kazakhs Aidyn Aimbetow .
emblem | Team photo | Members | Duration | The End | ||
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ISS expedition 43 |
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from March 28, 2015 - Soyuz TMA-16M
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91.4 days |
Soyuz TMA-15M decoupling |
June 11, 2015 ||||
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ISS expedition 44 | ||||||
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from July 23, 2015 - Soyuz TMA-17M
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90.5 days |
Soyuz TMA-16M decoupling |
Sep 11 2015 ||
ISS expedition 45 |
from Sept. 4, 2015 - Soyuz TMA-18M
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91.5 days |
Soyuz TMA-17M decoupling |
Dec. 11, 2015 |||||
ISS Expedition 46 | ||||||
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from Dec. 15, 2015 - Soyuz TMA-19M
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81.6 days |
Soyuz TMA-18M decoupling |
2nd Mar 2016 |||
Expeditions 47 to 58
emblem | Team photo | Members | Duration | The End | ||
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ISS expedition 47 |
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from March 19, 2016 - Soyuz TMA-20
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108.4 days |
Soyuz TMA-19M decoupling |
June 18, 2016 ||||
ISS expedition 48 | ||||||
from July 9, 2016 - Soyuz MS-01
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80.7 days |
Soyuz TMA-20M decoupling |
6 Sep 2016 ||||
ISS expedition 49 | ||||||
from Oct. 21, 2016 - Soyuz MS-02
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53.1 days |
Soyuz MS-01 decoupling |
Oct. 30, 2016 ||||
ISS expedition 50 | ||||||
from Nov. 19, 2016 - Soyuz MS-03
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162.3 days |
Soyuz MS-02 decoupling |
Apr 10, 2017 ||||
ISS expedition 51 | ||||||
from April 20, 2017 - Soyuz MS-04
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53.1 days |
Soyuz MS-03 decoupling without Whitson |
June 2, 2017 ||||
ISS expedition 52 |
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92.4 days |
Soyuz MS-04 decoupling from Whitson |
Sep 2 2017 |||||
ISS expedition 53 | ||||||
from Sep 13 2017 - Soyuz MS-06
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102.3 days |
Soyuz MS-05 decoupling |
Dec. 14, 2017 ||||
ISS expedition 54 | ||||||
from Dec. 19, 2017 - Soyuz MS-07
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75.4 days |
Soyuz MS-06 decoupling |
Feb. 27, 2018 ||||
ISS expedition 55 | ||||||
from March 23, 2018 - Soyuz MS-08
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95.4 days |
Soyuz MS-07 decoupling |
June 3, 2018 ||||
ISS expedition 56 | ||||||
from June 8, 2018 - Soyuz MS-09
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122.9 days |
Soyuz MS-08 decoupling |
Oct. 4, 2018 ||||
ISS expedition 57 | ||||||
The originally planned team |
from 3rd Dec. 2018 - Soyuz MS-11
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76.7 days |
Soyuz MS-09 decoupling |
Dec. 20, 2018 |||
ISS expedition 58 | ||||||
84.4 days |
coupling Soyuz MS-12 |
15th Mar 2019
The launch of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft on October 11, 2018 had to be canceled due to a problem with the first stage separation; Alexei Ovchinin and Nick Hague landed unscathed in Kazakhstan. The crew of the early Soyuz MS-11 flight served as a replacement for the crew of Expedition 57, the length of which was extended to three expeditions.
Expeditions 59 to 62
Delays in the completion of the two new US spaceships Crew Dragon and CST-100 Starliner resulted in some changes in the crew planning. As a precaution, Christina Hammock Koch and Andrew Morgan's stay was extended to three expeditions so that the American segment of the space station could definitely remain occupied by at least one astronaut. NASA later acquired a seat each for one (additional) US astronaut on the Soyuz MS-12 to Soyuz MS-17 flights .
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ISS expedition 59 |
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from March 15, 2019 - Soyuz MS-12
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101.9 days |
Soyuz MS-11 decoupling |
June 24, 2019 |||||
328 days - longest time a woman has been in space
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ISS expedition 60 | |||||||
from July 20, 2019 - Soyuz MS-13
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100.3 days |
Soyuz MS-12 decoupling |
Oct. 3, 2019 |||||
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ISS expedition 61 |
from Sep 25 2019 - Soyuz MS-15
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125.9 days |
Soyuz MS-13 decoupling |
Feb 6, 2020 ||||||
ISS Expedition 62 | |||||||
from April 9, 2020 - Soyuz MS-16
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70.8 days |
Soyuz MS-15 decoupling from Morgan |
Apr. 17, 2020
Current and future expeditions
Expeditions 63 to 66 take place every six months. In 2022, the plan is to switch back to four expeditions per year.
From expedition 63
The current Expedition 63 began on April 17, 2020 with the decoupling of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft from the ISS and is expected to end in October 2020 with the decoupling of Soyuz MS-16.
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ISS Expedition 63 (current) |
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May 31 to August 1, 2020 - SpX-DM2
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187 days (planned) |
Soyuz MS-16 decoupling (planned) |
Oct 21, 2020 |||
Aug./Sep. 2020 to approx. Feb. / March 2021 - SpaceX Crew-1 (planned)
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ISS expedition 64 |
from Oct 14, 2020 - Soyuz MS-17 (planned)
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Soyuz MS-17 decoupling (planned) |
Apr. 2021 |||||
1st quarter 2021 - Boe-CFT (expected)
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ISS Expedition 65 |
from April 2021 - Soyuz MS-18 (planned)
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Soyuz MS-18 decoupling (planned) |
Oct. 2021 |||||
2021 - SpaceX Crew-2
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Web links
- NASA: International Space Station (English)
- NASA: Expedition Schedule (under Browse by Expeditions )
- spacefacts.de: Future ISS expeditions
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Suffredini: International Space Station Program Status , September 13, 2010 (PDF; 2.91 MB, English)
- ↑ Планируемые полёты. astronaut.ru, March 18, 2011, accessed March 19, 2011 (Russian).
- ↑ Jeff Foust: Two NASA astronauts to get extended ISS stays. In: Spacenews. April 17, 2019, accessed April 17, 2019 .
- ↑ US to Extend Use of Russia's Soyuz for ISS Missions Until April 2020 - Source. In: Sputnik News. February 12, 2019, accessed March 9, 2019 .
- ^ Space Station Research Explorer on NASA.gov: Browse by Expeditions . NASA, accessed May 23, 2020.