Roscosmos

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 is in the top 5% for total time in space.

Elite Spaceflyer

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

Soyuz MS-19

The mission crew includes Roscosmos commander and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Russian film producer Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild to the International Space Station. Yulia and Klim both landed aboard the MS-18 Capsule.

Shipenko and Peresild will spend about a week on the ISS before returning to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-18, with the intention of producing the first feature-length film ‘The Challenge’ to be shot in outer space, while Shkaplerov will remain in orbit over a longer period.

NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov will be using Soyuz MS-19 to return to Earth from a multi-month long stay on the ISS.

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

Soyuz MS-07

Soyuz MS-07 took three members of the Expedition 54 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-15M

Soyuz TMA-15M ferried three members of the Expedition 42 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-22

Soyuz TMA-22 ferried three members of the Expedition 29 crew to the International Space Station. This was the final flight of the Soyuz TMA variant and the first launch in a nearly nine-year period when Russia was the only nation capable of taking crew to the ISS.

Anton N. Shkaplerov

Russia

Expedition 54 ISS Pirs EVA 2

Expedition 66 - ISS Poisk EVA 1

Expedition 30 EVA 1

NASA

STS-106 (Atlantis)

This was the third of three missions to prepare the International Space Station for permanent human habitation, delivering and unpacking vital supplies and connecting cables and data lines to Russia's newly arrived Zvezda service module.

The first reusable launch and landing spacecraft, the Space Shuttle began a new chapter of human space exploration. It launched like a rocket but landed on a runway like a plane. Shuttle crews deployed dozens of commercial satellites and two interplanetary probes to Venus and Jupiter. The Shuttle served as a mini space station and hosted hundreds of biomedical, psychological, physiological, materials science, and physics experiments that have directly benefited life on Earth. The five flight-worthy Shuttles -- Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour -- flew 135 missions over 30 years. The Shuttles helped construct the Russian Mir space station and brought nearly 80% of the International Space Station to orbit. Shuttles also deployed and serviced the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space Shuttle

STS-115 (Atlantis)

Atlantis' crew resumed construction of the International Space Station with the delivery and installation of the P3/P4 truss, solar arrays, and batteries.

Daniel C. Burbank

United States of America

STS-130 (Endeavour)

Endeavour's crew delivered the final NASA connecting module, Tranquility, and a 360 degree viewing port called the Cupola to the International Space Station and also relocated an ISS docking port.

Terry W. Virts Jr.

Soyuz MS-16

Soyuz MS-16 brought two Russians and an American to the International Space Station. Originally, a Japanese astronaut was supposed to fly but was replaced with an American due to continued delays to the start of the Commercial Crew Program for NASA. After 9 years as the only craft capable of launching people to (and bringing them back from) the ISS, this mission marked the Soyuz's last flight in that role. Six weeks after this flight began, SpaceX launched its first crewed mission to the ISS, once again giving the outpost two vehicles capable of launching and landing humans.

Soyuz MS-01

Soyuz MS-01 took three members of the Expedition 48 crew to the International Space Station.  This was first flight of the Soyuz MS variant.

Anatoli Ivanishin

European Space Agency (ESA)

SpaceX

This astronaut is the first woman from Italy to go to space.

First Woman from Italy

SpaceX Crew-4

Italy

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins along with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will conduct a planned 6-month mission to the International Space Station aboard the new Dragon capsule named Freedom.

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.

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