List of visiting expeditions to the International Space Station

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International Space Station in 2018.

Visiting expeditions to the International Space Station are teams of one to three astronauts who visit the ISS by Soyuz on short duration expeditions. EP-N is a term used by RKK Energia, meaning both "Visiting Crew"[1] as "Visiting Expedition".[2]

Humans have been on the ISS on a temporary basis since December 1998 and on a permanent basis since November 2000. The permanent occupation of the station is carried out by core crews, who usually stay for six months. Along with this, space shuttles have also been to the ISS during the construction of the station.

Three-seat, single-use Soyuz serve as lifeboats on the ISS, changing every six months. If transporting the core members does not fully occupy the Soyuz, the ships end up being crewed by astronauts returning after a week or ten days on the space shuttle (usually representatives of space agencies other than Russia or space tourists) or by the Soyuz. These crew members are the "visiting team" and their expeditions are called "visiting expeditions" (Russian: экспедиция посещения, or ЭП). In the period 2000–2002, when crews were switched to the space shuttle, visiting expeditions ended up being three people. From 2003 to 2009, there was only one seat available on the Soyuz in addition to two main crew seats. Since 2009, the main crews have been six crew members and the Soyuz was solely used for its transportation until the Crew Dragon launch. The next short visit did not occur until September 2015, in connection with the one-year mission to the ISS, and then in 2019.

Continued international collaboration on ISS missions has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia.[3]

List[edit]

  • Dates beside "Expedition X" are from the stay at the station.

     Flights with space tourists.

Nº[4] Crew[5] Image Launch[5] Landing[5] Backup[5] Ref.
1st Visiting Expedition
April 30, 2001 - May 6, 2001
1
Russia Talgat Musabayev
Russia Yuri Baturin
United States Dennis Tito[a]
28.04.2001
07:37:19 UTC
(Soyuz TM-32) 		06.05.2001
05:41:28 UTC
(Soyuz TM-31) 		Russia Viktor Afanasyev
Russia Konstantin Kozeyev 		[6][7]
7d 22h 04m 08s
2nd Visiting Expedition
Andromeda Program
October 23, 2001 - October 31, 2001
2
Russia Viktor Afanasyev
France Claudie Haigneré
Russia Konstantin Kozeyev
21.10.2001
08:59:34 UTC
(Soyuz TM-33) 		31.10.2001
04:59:25 UTC
(Soyuz TM-32) 		Russia Sergei Zalyotin
Russia Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya 		[8][9]
9d 19h 59m 50s
3rd Visiting Expedition
Marco Polo Program
April 27, 2002 - May 5, 2002
3
Russia Yuri Gidzenko
Italy Roberto Vittori
South Africa Mark Shuttleworth[a]
25.04.2002
06:26:35 UTC
(Soyuz TM-34) 		05.05.2002
03:51:40 UTC
(Soyuz TM-33) 		Russia Gennady Padalka
Russia Oleg Kononenko 		[10][11]
9d 21h 25m 05s
4th Visiting Expedition
Odissea Program
November 1, 2002 - November 9, 2002
4
Russia Sergei Zalyotin
Belgium Frank De Winne
Russia Yuri Lonchakov
30.10.2002
03:11:10 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-1) 		10.11.2001
00:04:20 UTC
(Soyuz TM-34) 		Russia Yuri Lonchakov
Russia Aleksandr Lazutkin 		[12][13]
10d 20h 53m 09s
5th Visiting Expedition
Cervantes Program
October 20, 2003 - October 27, 2003
5
Spain Pedro Duque
18.10.2003
05:38:03 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-3) 		28.10.2003
02:40:20 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-2) 		Netherlands André Kuipers [14][15]
9d 21h 02m 17s
6th Visiting Expedition
Delta Program
April 21, 2004 - April 29, 2004
6
Netherlands André Kuipers
19.04.2004
03:19:00 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-4) 		30.04.2004
00:11:15 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-3) 		Germany Gerhard Thiele [16][17]
10d 20h 52m 15s
7th Visiting Expedition
October 16, 2004 - October 24, 2004
7 Russia Yuri Shargin
14.10.2004
03:06:27 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-5) 		24.10.2004
00:35:08 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-4) 		Without backup. [18][19]
9d 21h 28m 41s
8th Visiting Expedition
Eneid Program
April 17, 2005 - April 24, 2005
8 Italy Roberto Vittori
15.04.2005
00:46:25 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-6) 		24.04.2005
22:08:27 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-5) 		Canada Robert Thirsk [20][21]
9d 21h 22m 02s
9th Visiting Expedition
October 3, 2005 - October 10, 2005
9 United States Gregory Olsen
01.10.2005
03:54:53 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-7) 		11.10.2005
01:09:47 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-6) 		Russia Sergei Kostenko [cs] [22][23]
9d 21h 14m 55s
10th Visiting Expedition
Missão Centenário
April 1, 2006 - April 8, 2006
10
Brazil Marcos Pontes
30.03.2006
02:30:20 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-8) 		08.04.2006
23:47:12 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-7) 		Russia Sergey Volkov [24][25]
Spaceflight participant 9d 21h 16m 52s
11th Visiting Expedition
September 20, 2006 - September 29, 2006
11 United States Anousheh Ansari
19.09.2006
04:08:42 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-9) 		29.09.2006
01:13:37 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-8) 		Without backup. [26][27]
10d 21h 04m 55s
12th Visiting Expedition
April 9, 2007 - April 21, 2007
12 United States Charles Simonyi
07.04.2007
17:31:14 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-10) 		21.04.2007
12:31:04 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-9) 		Without backup. [28][29]
13d 18h 59m 50s
13th Visiting Expedition
October 12, 2007 - October 21, 2007
13 Malaysia Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
10.10.2007
13:22:38 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-11) 		21.10.2007
10:35:49 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-10) 		Malaysia Faiz Khaleed [30][31]
Spaceflight participant 10d 21h 13m 10s
14th Visiting Expedition
Korean Astronaut Program
April 10, 2008 - April 19, 2008
14 South Korea Yi So-yeon
08.04.2008
11:16:38 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-12) 		19.04.2008
08:29:43 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-11) 		South Korea Ko San [32][33]
Spaceflight participant 10d 21h 13m 05s
15th Visiting Expedition
Generation II Astronaut
October 14, 2008 - October 24, 2008
15 United States Richard Garriott
12.10.2008
07:01:33 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-13) 		24.10.2008
03:36:49 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-12) 		Australia Nik Halik [34][35]
11d 20h 35m 17s
16th Visiting Expedition
March 28, 2009 - April 8, 2009
16 United States Charles Simonyi
26.03.2009
11:49:18 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-14) 		08.04.2009
07:15:09 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-13) 		United States Esther Dyson [36][37]
12d 19h 25m 52s
17th Visiting Expedition
Poetic Social Mission
October 2, 2009 - October 11, 2009
17 Canada Guy Laliberté
30.09.2009
07:14:44 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-16) 		11.10.2009
04:31:43 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-14) 		United States Barbara Barrett [38][39]
10d 21h 16m 58s
18th Visiting Expedition
September 4, 2015 - September 19, 2015
18 Denmark Andreas Mogensen
Kazakhstan Aidyn Aimbetov
02.09.2015
04:37:43 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-18M) 		12.09.2015
00:51:30 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-16M) 		France Thomas Pesquet
Russia Sergey Prokopyev 		[40][41]
9d 20h 13m 47s
19th Visiting Expedition
UAE Astronaut Mission 1
September 25, 2019 - October 3, 2019
19 United Arab Emirates Hazza Al Mansouri
25.09.2019
13:57:42 UTC
(Soyuz MS-15) 		03.10.2019
10:59:21 UTC
(Soyuz MS-12) 		United Arab Emirates Sultan Al Neyadi [42][43]
Spaceflight participant 7d 21h 01m 38s
- Visiting Expedition
Vyzov
October 5, 2021 - October 17, 2021
- Russia Klim Shipenko
Russia Yulia Peresild
05.10.2021
08:55:02 UTC
(Soyuz MS-19) 		17.10.2021
04:35:42 UTC
(Soyuz MS-18) 		Russia Aleksei Dudin
Russia Alyona Mordovina 		[44][45]
[46][47]
[48]
11d 19h 40m 40s
Spaceflight participants
20th Visiting Expedition
December 8, 2021 - December 20, 2021
20 Russia Aleksandr Misurkin
Japan Yusaku Maezawa[a]
Japan Yozo Hirano[a]
08.12.2021
07:38:15 UTC
(Soyuz MS-20) 		20.12.2021
03:13:18 UTC
(Soyuz MS-20) 		Russia Alexandr Skvortsov
Russia Andrei Fedyayev [ru][b]
Japan Shun Ogiso[a] 		[49][50]
11d 19h 35m 03s
21st Visiting Expedition
March 23, 2024 - April 6, 2024[51]
21 Russia Oleg Novitsky
Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya
23.03.2024
(Soyuz MS-25)[52] 		06.04.2024
(Soyuz MS-24)[53] 		Russia Ivan Vagner
Belarus Anastasia Lenkova 		[54][55]
13d 18h 41m 0s

Cancelled[edit]

Expeditions canceled due to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Crew[5] Launch[5] Duration Backup[5] Ref.
5th Visiting Expedition
Russia Gennady Padalka
Spain Pedro Duque 		28.04.2003
(Soyuz TMA-2A) 		10 days Russia Sergei Krikalev
Russia Oleg Kotov 		[56][57]
6th Visiting Expedition
Russia Sergei Krikalev
Netherlands André Kuipers 		18.10.2003
(Soyuz TMA-3A) 		10 days Russia Yury Onufriyenko
Russia Oleg Skripochka 		[56][58]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Space tourist
  2. ^ Only in some aspects of training.

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