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Overall mission success, safety of crew and Station. Peggy Whitson, first female commander Flight Engineer Overall mission success, science Robert Thirsk, first Canadian astronaut to be part of an ISS expedition Science Officer Primary responsibility for station's science experiments. A secondary position for an ISS Flight Engineer.
Current ISS crew names are in bold. The suffix (twice, thrice, ...) refers to the individual's number of spaceflights to the ISS, not the total number of spaceflights. Entries are noted with for women and for men. This list only includes crew members of the ISS. For a list including non-crew, see List of visitors to the International Space Station.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada). The ISS is the largest space station ever built.
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station.
The astronauts of SpaceX Crew-9, Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov and Commander Nick Hague leave astronaut quarters to prepare for the launch to the International Space Station.
Spending a month longer than planned aboard the ISS, three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are finally headed home.
A US national has commanded the station 28 times. [Note 1] Japanese and Italian nationals have commanded the station 2 times. Belgian, British, [Note 1] Canadian, Danish, German, and French nationals have commanded the station once each. Gennady Padalka has commanded the station on 4 separate occasions, more than any other inhabitant.
SpaceX launched a reduced two-man crew on a flight to the International Space Station Saturday, along with supplies and a pair of empty seats for two Starliner astronauts waiting to hitch a ride ...