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Overall mission success, safety of crew and spacecraft Pilot Serves as systems engineer, copilot, and would perform any other mission objectives such as EVA's during the Gemini program. Apollo: Commander Overall mission success, safety of crew and spacecraft, pilot in command of spacecraft during launch, trans-lunar coast, and Earth return coast.
This is a list of crew to the International Space Station, in alphabetical order. 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.
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.
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 International Space Station flight control positions used by NASA in Houston are different from those used by previous NASA programs. These differences exist primarily to stem the potential confusion that might otherwise follow from conflicting use of the same name in two different rooms during the same operations, such as when the space ...
Spending a month longer than planned aboard the ISS, three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are finally headed home.
The Crew-7 astronauts, riding aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, docked with the International Space Station on Sunday.
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.