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List of visiting expeditions to the International Space Station

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]

International Space Station in 2018.

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
 
  Talgat Musabayev
  Yuri Baturin
  Dennis Tito[a]
 
 28.04.2001
07:37:19 UTC
(Soyuz TM-32) 		06.05.2001
05:41:28 UTC
(Soyuz TM-31) 		  Viktor Afanasyev
  Konstantin Kozeyev 		[6][7]
7d 22h 04m 08s
2nd Visiting Expedition
Andromeda Program
October 23, 2001 - October 31, 2001
2
 
  Viktor Afanasyev
  Claudie Haigneré
  Konstantin Kozeyev
 
 21.10.2001
08:59:34 UTC
(Soyuz TM-33) 		31.10.2001
04:59:25 UTC
(Soyuz TM-32) 		  Sergei Zalyotin
  Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya 		[8][9]
9d 19h 59m 50s
3rd Visiting Expedition
Marco Polo Program
April 27, 2002 - May 5, 2002
3
 
  Yuri Gidzenko
  Roberto Vittori
  Mark Shuttleworth[a]
 
 25.04.2002
06:26:35 UTC
(Soyuz TM-34) 		05.05.2002
03:51:40 UTC
(Soyuz TM-33) 		  Gennady Padalka
  Oleg Kononenko 		[10][11]
9d 21h 25m 05s
4th Visiting Expedition
Odissea Program
November 1, 2002 - November 9, 2002
4
 
  Sergei Zalyotin
  Frank De Winne
  Yuri Lonchakov
 
 30.10.2002
03:11:10 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-1) 		10.11.2001
00:04:20 UTC
(Soyuz TM-34) 		  Yuri Lonchakov
  Aleksandr Lazutkin 		[12][13]
10d 20h 53m 09s
5th Visiting Expedition
Cervantes Program
October 20, 2003 - October 27, 2003
5
 
  Pedro Duque
 
 18.10.2003
05:38:03 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-3) 		28.10.2003
02:40:20 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-2) 		  André Kuipers [14][15]
9d 21h 02m 17s
6th Visiting Expedition
Delta Program
April 21, 2004 - April 29, 2004
6
 
  André Kuipers
 
 19.04.2004
03:19:00 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-4) 		30.04.2004
00:11:15 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-3) 		  Gerhard Thiele [16][17]
10d 20h 52m 15s
7th Visiting Expedition
October 16, 2004 - October 24, 2004
7   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   Roberto Vittori
 
 15.04.2005
00:46:25 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-6) 		24.04.2005
22:08:27 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-5) 		  Robert Thirsk [20][21]
9d 21h 22m 02s
9th Visiting Expedition
October 3, 2005 - October 10, 2005
9   Gregory Olsen
 
 01.10.2005
03:54:53 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-7) 		11.10.2005
01:09:47 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-6) 		  Sergei Kostenko [cs] [22][23]
9d 21h 14m 55s
10th Visiting Expedition
Missão Centenário
April 1, 2006 - April 8, 2006
10
 
  Marcos Pontes
 
 30.03.2006
02:30:20 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-8) 		08.04.2006
23:47:12 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-7) 		  Sergey Volkov [24][25]
Spaceflight participant 9d 21h 16m 52s
11th Visiting Expedition
September 20, 2006 - September 29, 2006
11   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   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   Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
 
 10.10.2007
13:22:38 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-11) 		21.10.2007
10:35:49 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-10) 		  Faiz Khaleed [30][31]
Spaceflight participant 10d 21h 13m 10s
14th Visiting Expedition
Korean Astronaut Program
April 10, 2008 - April 19, 2008
14   Yi So-yeon
 
 08.04.2008
11:16:38 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-12) 		19.04.2008
08:29:43 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-11) 		  Ko San [32][33]
Spaceflight participant 10d 21h 13m 05s
15th Visiting Expedition
Generation II Astronaut
October 14, 2008 - October 24, 2008
15   Richard Garriott
 
 12.10.2008
07:01:33 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-13) 		24.10.2008
03:36:49 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-12) 		  Nik Halik [34][35]
11d 20h 35m 17s
16th Visiting Expedition
March 28, 2009 - April 8, 2009
16   Charles Simonyi
 
 26.03.2009
11:49:18 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-14) 		08.04.2009
07:15:09 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-13) 		  Esther Dyson [36][37]
12d 19h 25m 52s
17th Visiting Expedition
Poetic Social Mission
October 2, 2009 - October 11, 2009
17   Guy Laliberté
 
 30.09.2009
07:14:44 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-16) 		11.10.2009
04:31:43 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-14) 		  Barbara Barrett [38][39]
10d 21h 16m 58s
18th Visiting Expedition
September 4, 2015 - September 19, 2015
18   Andreas Mogensen
  Aidyn Aimbetov
 
 02.09.2015
04:37:43 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-18M) 		12.09.2015
00:51:30 UTC
(Soyuz TMA-16M) 		  Thomas Pesquet
  Sergey Prokopyev 		[40][41]
9d 20h 13m 47s
19th Visiting Expedition
UAE Astronaut Mission 1
September 25, 2019 - October 3, 2019
19   Hazza Al Mansouri
 
 25.09.2019
13:57:42 UTC
(Soyuz MS-15) 		03.10.2019
10:59:21 UTC
(Soyuz MS-12) 		  Sultan Al Neyadi [42][43]
Spaceflight participant 7d 21h 01m 38s
- Visiting Expedition
Vyzov
October 5, 2021 - October 17, 2021
-   Klim Shipenko
  Yulia Peresild
 
 05.10.2021
08:55:02 UTC
(Soyuz MS-19) 		17.10.2021
04:35:42 UTC
(Soyuz MS-18) 		  Aleksei Dudin
  Alyona Mordovina 		[44][45]
[46][47]
[48]
11d 19h 40m 40s
Spaceflight participants
20th Visiting Expedition
December 8, 2021 - December 20, 2021
20   Aleksandr Misurkin
  Yusaku Maezawa[a]
  Yozo Hirano[a]
 
 08.12.2021
07:38:15 UTC
(Soyuz MS-20) 		20.12.2021
03:13:18 UTC
(Soyuz MS-20) 		  Alexandr Skvortsov
  Andrei Fedyayev [ru][b]
  Shun Ogiso[a] 		[49][50]
11d 19h 35m 03s
21st Visiting Expedition
March 23, 2024 - April 6, 2024[51]
21   Oleg Novitsky
  Marina Vasilevskaya
 
 23.03.2024
(Soyuz MS-25)[52] 		06.04.2024
(Soyuz MS-24)[53] 		  Ivan Vagner
  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
  Gennady Padalka
  Pedro Duque 		28.04.2003
(Soyuz TMA-2A) 		10 days   Sergei Krikalev
  Oleg Kotov 		[56][57]
6th Visiting Expedition
  Sergei Krikalev
  André Kuipers 		18.10.2003
(Soyuz TMA-3A) 		10 days   Yury Onufriyenko
  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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