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

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

Soyuz MS-21

The mission will carry Oleg Artemyev as well as two rookie fliers, Denis Mavteev and Sergey Korsakov. This will be the first Soyuz mission to the ISS with three Russian cosmonauts.

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-08

Soyuz MS-08 took three members of the Expedition 55 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-12M

Soyuz TMA-12M ferried three members of the Expedition 39 crew to the International Space Station.

Oleg Artemyev

Russia

Expedition 67 - ISS Poisk EVA 4

Expedition 67 RS EVA ESA 

Expedition 67 - ISS Poisk EVA 1

Expedition 56 ISS Pirs EVA 2

Expedition 67 - ISS Poisk EVA 2

Expedition 67 - ISS Poisk EVA 3

Expedition 40 EVA 1

Expedition 40 EVA 2

NASA

STS-117 (Atlantis)

This Space Shuttle mission brought the S3/S4 truss, solar arrays, and batteries to the International Space Station and rotated a single U.S. crewmember. More than 7,000 divots were put in the External Tank's foam when a hail storm passed over the launch pad. The flight was delayed three months for repairs.

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-119 (Discovery)

This Space Shuttle mission delivered the P6 truss, solar array, and battery fixture to the International Space Station, rotated an ISS crewmember, and continued electrical rewiring efforts.

Steven R. Swanson

United States of America

Richard R. Arnold II

STS-125 (Atlantis)

The fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. The flight upgraded Hubble's systems, ensuring the telescope would work until at least the early 2020s. The crew also installed equipment to permit a yet-unplanned commercial servicing mission to the telescope.

STS-134 (Endeavour)

The 25th and final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission coincidentally launched on the 19th anniversary of Endeavour landing on her maiden voyage in 1992. This flight saw the crew deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer antimatter detector experiment and an external spares pallet to the International Space Station. The mission marked "Assembly Complete" for NASA's portion of the ISS with the transfer of Endeavour's heatshield scanning boom to the ISS to extend the reach of Canadarm2. This marked the final time a non-American flew on the Space Shuttle. Endeavour landed on June 1st, 2011, becoming the second Shuttle to retire. She spent a total of 299 days in space, traveled 197,761,262 km, and carried 173 crewmembers across a 19-year career.

Andrew J. Feustel

Soyuz TMA-18

Soyuz TMA-18 ferried three members of the Expedition 23 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz MS-13

Soyuz MS-13 took three members of the Expedition 60 crew to the International Space Station. Christina Koch, who launched on Soyuz MS-12, landed on this mission after a year in space.

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