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 has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

Ivan Viktorovich Vagner was born on July 10, 1985, in Severoonezhsk, Russia. He graduated from the Baltic State Technical University in 2008 with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. Before his selection as a cosmonaut in October 2010, Vagner worked as an engineer at RSC Energia, assisting in flight management for the International Space Station (ISS) program. He completed basic spaceflight training in 2012. Vagner's first spaceflight was as a flight engineer on Soyuz MS-16, launching on April 9, 2020, and serving as a member of Expeditions 62 and 63 aboard the ISS. As of September 2024, he is serving as a flight engineer on the ISS as part of Expedition 72.

Soyuz MS-26

Roscosmos launched two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station.

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-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.

Ivan Vagner

Russia

Expedition 45 ISS Quest EVA 3

NASA

STS-113 (Endeavour)

Endeavour rotated the Expedition 5 and 6 International Space Station crews and delivered the P1 truss to the ISS. Construction of the ISS was halted after this mission and did not resume until 2006 due to the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia and her seven-person crew on the next Shuttle flight. After four days of landing delays because of weather, this mission holds the record for most delayed landing attempts of a human spaceflight.

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

United States of America

STS-126 (Endeavour)

This resupply and logistics run to the International Space Station delivered all the equipment needed to expand the ISS's crew size from three people to six, conducted repairs to huge rotary joints that allow the ISS's solar arrays to track the Sun, and rotated an ISS crewmember.

Soyuz TMA-03M

Soyuz TMA-03M ferried three members of the Expedition 30 crew to the International Space Station.

Donald Pettit

This astronaut is in the top 5% for total spacewalking time.

Elite Spacewalker

This astronaut is in the top 5% for number of space walks.

Frequent Walker

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

Elite Spaceflyer

STS-127 (Endeavour)

The third of three Space Shuttle construction flights to assemble the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex at the ISS delivered the exposed facility and Japanese robot arm. The 500th person reached space on this mission, with the crew giving the honor to Chris Cassidy. The flight rotated a single ISS crewmember.

Soyuz TMA-08M

Soyuz TMA-08M ferried three members of the Expedition 35 crew to the International Space Station.

Christopher J. Cassidy

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.

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

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 TMA-20M

Soyuz TMA-20M ferried three members of the Expedition 47 crew to the International Space Station. This was the final flight of the Soyuz TMA-M variant.

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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