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-08

Soyuz MS-08 took three members of the Expedition 55 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

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.

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

Richard R. Arnold II

United States of America

STS-119 EVA 3

Expedition 55 ISS Quest EVA 1

Expedition 56 ISS Quest EVA 1

STS-119 EVA 1

Expedition 55 ISS Quest EVA 2

NASDA

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

SpaceX

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

Elite Spaceflyer

Roscosmos

SpaceX Crew-5

Russia

Crew-5 is the fifth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the eight overall crewed orbital flight. This flight is using Crew Dragon capsule named Endurance making its second flight. This is the first U.S. crewed mission to carry a Russian cosmonaut since November, 2002.

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

Soyuz TMA-11M

Soyuz TMA-11M ferried three members of the Expedition 38 crew to the International Space Station.

STS-72 (Endeavour)

This was a NASA-Japan co-sponsored flight to retrieve Japan's Space Flyer Unit as well as deploy and re-capture the free-flyer science platform.

STS-92 (Discovery)

The 100th Space Shuttle flight brought a docking port, motion control system, communications system, and the Z1 truss structure to the International Space Station.

Koichi Wakata

Japan

STS-100 (Endeavour)

Endeavour delivered Canadarm2, the ISS's robotic arm, to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-6

Soyuz TMA-6 ferried the two-person Expedition 11 crew to and from the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Vittori joined for a short duration mission, returning to Earth on Soyuz TMA-5.

John L. Phillips

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.

Lee J. Archambault

Soyuz TMA-12M

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

Steven R. Swanson

STS-132 (Atlantis)

Space Shuttle Atlantis' six-person crew delivered the Russian Mini Research Module, Rassvet, to the International Space Station as well as 1,913 kg of external spare parts. This was originally Atlantis' final flight. Eight months after this mission ended, NASA added one more flight to the Space Shuttle program and assigned Atlantis to fly what would ultimately become the Shuttle program's final voyage. As such, this flight is lovingly referred to as "The first last flight of Atlantis." The crew signed their names on a locker in Atlantis, believing it to be her final flight. NASA instructed all crews on pending final Space Shuttle flights to not repeat this crew's actions. The signatures, however, were never removed.

Dominic A. Antonelli

Soyuz MS-06

Soyuz MS-06 took three members of the Expedition 53 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-04M

Soyuz TMA-04M ferried three members of the Expedition 31 crew to the International Space Station.

Joseph M. Acaba

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

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 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.

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