Where is the International Space Station?

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— ISS time in orbit —

since 06:40 UTC Nov. 20, 1998
— Continuously crewed —

since Nov. 2, 2000
— Expedition 72 duration —

since 08:36 UTC Sept. 23, 2024

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Crew: Expedition 72

Began Sept. 23, 2024; transitioning to Expedition 72 in April 2025

Docked Sept. 29, 2024

* Sunita Williams, NASA
     | Commander
*
Butch Wilmore, NASA
     | Flight Engineer
Nick Hague, NASA
     | Flight Engineer
Aleksandr Gorbunov, Roscosmos
     | Flight Engineer

Launched: Sept. 28, 2024, aboard Crew-9 Dragon
Expected landing: Feb. 22, 2025, aboard Crew-9 Dragon

Docked Sept. 11, 2024

Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
     | Flight Engineer
Ivan Vagner, Roscosmos
     | Flight Engineer
Donald Pettit, NASA
     | Flight Engineer

Launched: Sept. 11, 2024, aboard Soyuz MS-26
Expected landing: April 1, 2025, aboard Soyuz MS-26

* Note: Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams launched to the ISS in Starliner’s Crew Flight Test on June 5, 2024, and is now expected to return to Earth aboard Crew-9 Dragon in February 2025.

The official Expedition 72 crew portrait. Credit: NASA


Currently docked and berthed spacecraft

Russian orbital segment

Zvezda aft

Spacecraft: Progress MS-28
Arrival: Aug. 17, 2024
Planned departure: Feb. 12, 2025

 

Poisk zenith

Spacecraft: Progress MS-27
Arrival: June 1, 2024
Planned departure: Nov. 19, 2024

 

Prichal nadir

Unoccupied

 

Rassvet nadir

Spacecraft: Soyuz MS-26
Arrival: Sept. 11, 2024
Planned departure: April 1, 2025

 

US orbital segment

Unity nadir

Spacecraft: NG-21 Cygnus
Arrival: Aug. 6, 2024
Planned departure: January 2025

 

Harmony zenith

Spacecraft: Crew-9 Dragon
Arrival: Sept. 29, 2024
Planned departure: Feb. 22, 2025

 

Harmony nadir

Unoccupied

 

Harmony forward

Spacecraft: CRS-31 Dragon
Arrival: Nov. 5, 2024
Planned departure: Dec. 2024

 

News

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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