Roscosmos

SpaceX

SpaceX Crew-9

SpaceX launched a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut to the ISS aboard Dragon. Due to technical issues with Boeing's Starliner, Crew-9 launched with two empty seats to accommodate the return of Boeing's Starliner crew.

Crew Dragon is the first privately built and operated orbital spacecraft capable of flying humans. As a reusable SpaceX capsule, it transports crew members to and from the International Space Station. It will also carry paying customers to the Station and low Earth orbit. While it typically accommodates a crew of four, this number can vary depending on the mission.

Crew Dragon

Aleksandr Gorbunov

Russia

NASA

This astronaut visited the International Space Station.

ISS Visitor

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

Soyuz MS-12

This three-person International Space Station crew mission saw the relaunch of the two crewmembers from the aborted Soyuz MS-10 flight six months prior. They were joined on this flight by NASA astronaut Christina Koch who, after launching for a six-month mission, ended up staying on the ISS for a year and breaking the longest single-spaceflight record for a woman by more than two months. Hazza Al Mansouri landed on this mission after launching on Soyuz MS-15. If you ask Russia and NASA what spaceflight number this was for Ovchinin and Hague, you'd get a different answer.  Russia uses the internationally recognized Kármán line at 100 km as the marker of where space begins and NASA uses the US-only 80 km mark. Thus, on Soyuz MS-10, Russia does not consider Ovchinin and Hague to have reached space, but NASA does. This is either Hague's first or second spaceflight and Ovchinin second or third... depending on who you ask.

Soyuz is a human-carrying capsule built and operated by Russia, capable of transporting up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded numerous times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crewed vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.

Soyuz

United States of America

Soyuz MS-10

This two-person International Space Station crew launch suffered a rocket failure at booster separation. The Soyuz's abort system activated within milliseconds, pulled the crew away from the failing rocket, and parachuted them safely to the ground where they were picked up and reunited with their families. It is the only In-Flight Abort for an International Space Station crew mission in the program's history. The two crewmembers on this aborted mission went on to fly to the ISS six months later on Soyuz MS-12. Internationally, this flight is not recognized as a true spaceflight as it reached only 93 km, just short of the Kármán line, the 100 km internationally recognized boundary to space. However, since a U.S. astronaut was onboard and NASA marks the boundary of space at 80 km, this counts as a spaceflight to NASA but not to Russia.

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