Roscosmos

NASA

Belarus Space Agency

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut visited the International Space Station.

Station Visitor

Soyuz MS-24

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-25

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

Marina Vasilevskaya

Belarus

ISS Visitor

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

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

Elite Spaceflyer

Soyuz MS-18

Soyuz TMA-06M

Soyuz TMA-06M ferried three members of the Expedition 33 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz MS-03

Soyuz MS-03 took three members of the Expedition 50 crew to the International Space Station. Whitson remained on the ISS after Soyuz MS-03's mission was complete and landed with the Soyuz MS-04

Oleg Novitskiy

Russia

Expedition 65 - ISS Poisk EVA 1

Expedition 65 - ISS Poisk EVA 5

Expedition 65 - ISS Poisk EVA 6

Tracy C. Dyson was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998. The California native has a Ph.D. in Chemistry, and is a veteran of two space flights. Dr. Dyson has designed, constructed and implemented electronics and hardware for the study of atmospheric gas phase chemistry, and has developed and presented numerous papers on methods of chemical ionization for the spectral interpretation of trace compounds. In 2007, Dyson flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor on STS-118, where she served as a Mission Specialist. In 2010, she served as Flight Engineer for Expedition 23/24. She has logged more than 188 days in space, including over 22 hours in three spacewalks. Dyson has been assigned to her second long-duration mission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 70/71 crew. It will be her third space mission overall. Dyson will launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft in March 2024. Caption courtesy of NASA.

STS-118 (Endeavour)

This Space Shuttle flight fulfilled the Challenger mission goal of putting a teacher in space when Barbara Morgan, Christa McAuliffe's backup, flew on the Shuttle built to take Challenger's place. Morgan recorded lessons and talked to school kids during the flight in addition to her duties on the mission. The flight delivered supplies and the S5 spacer truss to the International Space Station and continued the electrical rewiring of the outpost.

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

Soyuz TMA-18

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

Tracy C. Dyson

United States of America

Expedition 24 EVA 2

Expedition 24 EVA 3

Expedition 24 EVA 4

Roscosmos cosmonaut Nikolai Chub has passions for flying and hiking. Born in 1984 in the south of Russia, he holds several records for wingsuit flying in Europe and his native country. Like many space travelers, Nikolai dreamed of space all his life. He became a cosmonaut when he was only 28 years old. Since then, this computer engineer and parachutist has completed winter, desert and mountain survival trainings. Caption courtesy of ESA.

Nikolai Chub

Expedition 69 - ISS Poisk EVA 5

Expedition 69 - ISS Poisk EVA 7

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

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

Soyuz TMA-03M

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

Soyuz TMA-17M

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

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