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since 06:40 UTC Nov. 20, 1998
since Nov. 2, 2000
since 21:57 UTC April 19, 2024
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Crew: Expedition 73
Began April 19, 2024; transitioning to Expedition 74 in December 2025
Docked March 16, 2025
Anne McClain, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Nichole Ayers, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Takuya Onishi, JAXA
| Commander
Kirill Peskov, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Launched: March 14, 2025, aboard Crew-10 Dragon
Expected landing: July 2025, aboard Crew-10 Dragon
Docked April 8, 2025
Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Alexey Zubritskey, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Jonny Kim, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Launched: April 8, 2025, aboard Soyuz MS-27
Expected landing: December 2025, aboard Soyuz MS-27
The official Expedition 73 crew portrait. Credit: NASA
Currently docked and berthed spacecraft
Russian orbital segment
Zvezda aft
Spacecraft: Progress MS-30
Arrival: March 1, 2025
Planned departure: Sept. 9, 2025
Poisk zenith
Spacecraft: Progress MS-29
Arrival: Nov. 23, 2024
Planned departure: July 3, 2025
Prichal nadir
Spacecraft: Soyuz MS-27
Arrival: April 8, 2025
Planned departure: December 2025
Rassvet nadir
Unoccupied
US orbital segment
Unity nadir
Unoccupied
Harmony zenith
Spacecraft: CRS-32 Dragon
Arrival: April 22, 2025
Planned departure: May 2025
Harmony nadir
Unoccupied
Harmony forward
Spacecraft: Crew-10 Dragon
Arrival: March 16, 2025
Planned departure: July 2025
News
The crew on board the International Space Station conduct cutting edge research, inspire thousands of children into STEAM fields and is arguably a bigger, greater and more challenging project than going to the moon was nearly 50 years ago.
Expeditions
Since Nov. 2, 2000, the International Space Station has been continuously occupied by at least two people. Over the last two decades more than 225 people have visited or lived aboard the ISS, including individuals from at least 10 countries.
ISS configuration
The ISS consists of 16 pressurized modules and a truss structure with solar array wings spanning an area larger than a football field. It took dozens of rocket launches and over 1,000 crew-hours to assemble this $100 billion outpost.
