NASA

This astronaut visited the International Space Station.

ISS Visitor

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

Anne C. McClain was selected by NASA in 2013. She is a colonel in the U.S. Army. The Spokane, Washington native earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical/aeronautical engineering from West Point. A 2002 Marshall Scholar, McClain earned a Master of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Bath in Bath, England and a Master of Science in international relations from the University of Bristol in Bristol, England. She also received a Master of Science in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. McClain is a Master Army Aviator with more than 2,000 flight hours in 20 different aircraft. She is an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior pilot and instructor pilot, and a rated pilot in the C-12 Huron (King Air), UH-60 Blackhawk, and UH-72 Lakota. McClain most recently served as Flight Engineer on the International Space Station for Expedition 58 and 59. She is currently training for her second spaceflight where she will serve as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission. Courtesy of NASA.

SpaceX Crew-10

SpaceX flew NASA astronauts, a JAXA astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station aboard Dragon.

Crew Dragon is the first privately built and operated orbital spacecraft capable of flying humans. As a reusable SpaceX capsule, it transports crew members to and from the International Space Station. It will also carry paying customers to the Station and low Earth orbit. While it typically accommodates a crew of four, this number can vary depending on the mission.

Crew Dragon

Soyuz MS-11

This was a critical International Space Station crew launch ferrying three people to the outpost. When the Soyuz MS-10 in-flight failure occurred two months earlier, it left the ISS in a precarious position: the three crew on the outpost had to come home by late-December or they would exceed the on-orbit time limit for their Soyuz MS-09 craft. That meant this mission's planned late-December launch had to be advanced to early-December, and teams back on the ground had to quickly discover and fix the cause of the Soyuz MS-10 failure or they'd risk having to de-crew the entire ISS. A fix was identified, implemented, and tested within six weeks, allowing this mission to fly early.

Soyuz is a human-carrying capsule built and operated by Russia, capable of transporting up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded numerous times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crewed vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.

Soyuz

Anne McClain

United States of America

Expedition 59 ISS Quest EVA 1

Expedition 59 ISS Quest EVA 3

Expedition 45 ISS Quest EVA 6

Roscosmos

This astronaut holds the record for the most time spent in space.

Elite Spaceflyer

The astronaut has spent over three years in space.

This astronaut is in the top 5% for total spacewalking time.

Elite Spacewalker

This astronaut is in the top 5% for number of missions.

Frequent Flyer

Soyuz MS-24

Russia

Belarus Space Agency

Soyuz MS-25

Belarus

Roscosmos launched a Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut, and a Belarusian astronaut to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-03M

Soyuz TMA-03M ferried three members of the Expedition 30 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-17M

Soyuz TMA-17M ferried three members of the Expedition 44 crew to the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-12

Soyuz TMA-12 ferried part of the Expedition 17 crew to and from the International Space Station. South Korean astronaut So-Yeon joined for a short duration mission, returning to Earth on Soyuz TMA-11.

Oleg Kononenko

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

SpaceX

Japan

Soyuz MS-01

Soyuz MS-01 took three members of the Expedition 48 crew to the International Space Station.  This was first flight of the Soyuz MS variant.

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