JAXA

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

YUI Kimiya was born in 1970 in Nagano. In 2015, he spent 142 days aboard the International Space Station as a Flight Engineer as part of the crew of Expeditions 44 and 45. During this stay, he controlled the robotics used in the capture of “KOUNOTORI5 (HTV5)” and conducted both Japanese and international scientific and medical experiments utilizing the space environment. Courtesy of JAXA.

Soyuz TMA-17M

Soyuz TMA-17M ferried three members of the Expedition 44 crew to 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

Kimiya Yui

Japan

Roscosmos

This astronaut holds the record for the most time spent in space.

Elite Spaceflyer

The astronaut has spent over three years in space.

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

Elite Spacewalker

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

Frequent Flyer

NASA

Soyuz MS-24

Russia

United States of America

Belarus Space Agency

Soyuz MS-25

Belarus

Roscosmos launched a Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut, and a Belarusian astronaut to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-03M

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

Soyuz MS-11

This was a critical International Space Station crew launch ferrying three people to the outpost. When the Soyuz MS-10 in-flight failure occurred two months earlier, it left the ISS in a precarious position: the three crew on the outpost had to come home by late-December or they would exceed the on-orbit time limit for their Soyuz MS-09 craft. That meant this mission's planned late-December launch had to be advanced to early-December, and teams back on the ground had to quickly discover and fix the cause of the Soyuz MS-10 failure or they'd risk having to de-crew the entire ISS. A fix was identified, implemented, and tested within six weeks, allowing this mission to fly early.

Soyuz TMA-12

Soyuz TMA-12 ferried part of the Expedition 17 crew to and from the International Space Station. South Korean astronaut So-Yeon joined for a short duration mission, returning to Earth on Soyuz TMA-11.

Oleg Kononenko

SpaceX

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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