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SpaceX Crew-4 (Expedition 67 / 68) Mission insignia. Kjell Norwood Lindgren (born January 23, 1973) is an American astronaut who was selected in [1] June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20. He launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Expedition 44 / 45 on July 22, 2015. [2][3]
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.
First commander of the ISS and also first American commander of the ISS. Expedition 2: Yury Usachev [6] 19 March 2001 [6] 18 August 2001 [7] First Russian commander of ISS. Expedition 3: Frank Culbertson [7] 18 August 2001 [7] 13 December 2001 [8] Only American onboard ISS during September 11 attacks. [9] Expedition 4: Yury Onufrienko [8] 13 ...
STS-120. Parazynski performs a repair of a torn solar panel on the P6 truss, reinstalled on the ISS four days earlier. STS-120 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched on October 23, 2007, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. [5] The mission is also referred to as ISS-10A by the ISS program.
The first in-flight repair of the Space Shuttle. The landmass in the backdrop is the Bari region of Somalia. Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft. In the absence of a breathable Earthlike atmosphere, the astronaut is completely reliant on a space suit for environmental support.
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 ...
Astronaut ranks and positions. Astronauts hold a variety of ranks and positions. Each of these roles carries responsibilities that are essential to the operation of a spacecraft. A spacecraft's cockpit, filled with sophisticated equipment, requires skills differing from those used to manage the scientific equipment on board, and so on.
Tyler Nicklaus "Nick" Hague (born 24 September 1975) is a United States Space Force colonel and a NASA astronaut of the class of 2013. [2][3] Selected to be a flight engineer on the International Space Station, his first launch was on Soyuz MS-10, which aborted shortly after take-off on 11 October 2018. His second launch, on 14 March 2019, was ...