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Artemis 2 crew announcement!
NASA announced the first Moon-bound crew since the Apollo era at 11 a.m. EST (15:00 UTC) April 3, 2023, in an event at Ellington Field in Houston.
The crew consists of three NASA astronauts and one Canadian astronaut. They are scheduled to fly in an Orion spacecraft atop an SLS rocket no earlier than late 2024.
During the roughly 10-day Artemis 2 mission, the crew will verify Orion’s systems and perform a free-return trajectory around the Moon before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
Where is the International Space Station?
Live ISS view
A blue screen may appear during "loss of signal" periods.
since 06:40 UTC Nov. 20, 1998
since Nov. 2, 2000
since 03:54 UTC April 6, 2024
Next event:
All times UTC
Crew: Expedition 71
Began April 6, 2024; transitioning to Expedition 72 in September 2024
Docked March 5, 2024
Matthew Dominick, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Michael Barratt, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Jeanette Epps, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Alexander Grebenkin, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Launched: March 4, 2024, aboard Crew-8 Dragon
Expected landing: August 2024, aboard Crew-8 Dragon
Docked March 25, 2024
Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos
| Commander
Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Launched: March 23, 2024, aboard Soyuz MS-25
Expected landing: Sept. 24, 2024, aboard Soyuz MS-25*
Note: Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub launched in Soyuz MS-24, but will return in Soyuz MS-25.
The official Expedition 71 crew portrait. Credit: NASA
Currently docked and berthed spacecraft
Russian orbital segment
Zvezda aft
Spacecraft: Progress MS-26
Arrival: Feb. 17, 2024
Planned departure: Aug. 13, 2024
Poisk zenith
Spacecraft: Progress MS-25
Arrival: Dec. 3, 2023
Planned departure: June 1, 2024
Prichal nadir
Spacecraft: Soyuz MS-25
Arrival: March 25, 2024
Planned departure: Sept. 24, 2024
Rassvet nadir
Unoccupied
US orbital segment
Unity nadir
Spacecraft: NG-20 Cygnus
Arrival: Feb. 1, 2024
Planned departure: July 2024
Harmony zenith
Spacecraft: CRS-30 Dragon
Arrival: March 23, 2024
Planned departure: April 2024
Harmony nadir
Unoccupied
Harmony forward
Spacecraft: Crew-8 Dragon
Arrival: March 5, 2024
Planned departure: August 2024
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.
