List of human spaceflights, 2001–2010

Last updated December 16, 2023

This is a detailed list of human spaceflights from 2001 to 2010, including the first full era of the International Space Station, first Shenzhou flights and first commercial space flights.

Red indicates fatalities.
Green indicates a suborbital flight.

#	Crew	Launch spacecraft	Habitation		Return spacecraft	Brief mission summary
224	Kenneth D. Cockrell (4) Mark L. Polansky (1) Robert L. Curbeam (2) Marsha S. Ivins (5) Thomas D. Jones (4)	7 February 2001 STS-98, Atlantis	ISS		20 February 2001 STS-98, Atlantis	ISS assembly and supply. Delivery of Destiny Laboratory Module.
225	James D. Wetherbee (5) James M. Kelly (1) Andrew S. W. Thomas (3) Paul W. Richards	8 March 2001 STS-102, Discovery	ISS		21 March 2001 STS-102, Discovery	ISS crew rotation, outfitting and resupply.
225	Yury Usachev (4) James S. Voss (5) Susan Helms (5)	8 March 2001 STS-102, Discovery	ISS (crew 2)		22 August 2001 STS-105, Discovery	ISS crew rotation, outfitting and resupply.
226	Kent V. Rominger (5) Jeffrey S. Ashby (2) Scott E. Parazynski (4) John L. Phillips (1) Chris A. Hadfield (2) Umberto Guidoni (2) Yuri Lonchakov (1)	19 April 2001 STS-100, Endeavour	ISS		1 May 2001 STS-100, Endeavour	ISS supply and assembly: delivery of Canadarm2 robotic arm. First European on board ISS (Guidoni). First Canadian EVA (Hadfield).
227	Talgat Musabayev (3) Yuri Baturin (2) Dennis A. Tito	29 April 2001 Soyuz TM-32	ISS		5 May 2001 Soyuz TM-31	First paying space tourist (Tito).
228	Steven W. Lindsey (3) Charles O. Hobaugh (1) Michael L. Gernhardt (4) James F. Reilly (2) Janet L. Kavandi (3)	12 July 2001 STS-104, Atlantis	ISS		24 July 2001 STS-104, Atlantis	ISS assembly and maintenance: delivery of Quest Airlock
229	Scott J. Horowitz (4) Frederick W. Sturckow (2) Daniel T. Barry (3) Patrick G. Forrester (1)	10 August 2001 STS-105, Discovery	ISS		22 August 2001 STS-105, Discovery	ISS crew rotation, assembly and supply.
229	Frank L. Culbertson (3) Vladimir Dezhurov (2) Mikhail Tyurin (1)	10 August 2001 STS-105, Discovery	ISS (crew 3)		17 December 2001 STS-108, Endeavour	ISS crew rotation, assembly and supply.
230	Viktor Mikhaylovich Afanasyev (4) Konstantin Kozeyev Claudie Haigneré (2)	21 October 2001 Soyuz TM-33	ISS		31 October 2001 Soyuz TM-32
231	Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie (3) Mark Kelly (1) Linda M. Godwin (4) Daniel M. Tani (1)	5 December 2001 STS-108, Endeavour	ISS		17 December 2001 STS-108, Endeavour	ISS crew rotation, assembly and supply.
231	Yuri Onufrienko (2) Carl E. Walz (4) Daniel W. Bursch (4)	5 December 2001 STS-108, Endeavour	ISS (crew 4)		19 June 2002 STS-111, Endeavour	ISS crew rotation, assembly and supply.
232	Scott D. Altman (3) Duane G. Carey John M. Grunsfeld (4) Nancy J. Sherlock Currie (4) James H. Newman (4) Richard M. Linnehan (3) Michael J. Massimino (1)	1 March 2002 STS-109, Columbia		12 March 2002 STS-109, Columbia		Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
233	Michael J. Bloomfield (3) Stephen N. Frick (1) Jerry L. Ross (7) Steven L. Smith (4) Ellen L. Ochoa (4) Lee Morin (1) Rex J. Walheim (1)	8 April 2002 STS-110, Atlantis	ISS		19 April 2002 STS-110, Atlantis	ISS assembly and supply.
234	Yuri Gidzenko (3) Roberto Vittori (1) Mark Shuttleworth	25 April 2002 Soyuz TM-34	ISS		5 May 2002 Soyuz TM-33	First South African in space (Shuttleworth). Second space tourist (Shuttleworth).
235	Kenneth D. Cockrell (5) Paul S. Lockhart (1) Franklin R. Chang-Diaz (7) Philippe Perrin	5 June 2002 STS-111, Endeavour	ISS		19 June 2002 STS-111, Endeavour	ISS crew rotation, assembly and supply.
235	Valeri Korzun (2) Sergei Treshchev Peggy A. Whitson (1)	5 June 2002 STS-111, Endeavour	ISS (crew 5)		7 December 2002 STS-113, Endeavour	ISS crew rotation, assembly and supply.
236	Jeffrey S. Ashby (3) Pamela A. Melroy (2) David A. Wolf (3) Piers J. Sellers (1) Sandra H. Magnus (1) Fyodor Yurchikhin (1)	7 October 2002 STS-112, Atlantis	ISS		18 October 2002 STS-112, Atlantis	ISS assembly, maintenance and supply.
237	Sergei Zalyotin (2) Yuri Lonchakov (2) Frank De Winne (1)	29 October 2002 Soyuz TMA-1	ISS		10 November 2002 Soyuz TM-34
238	James D. Wetherbee (6) Paul S. Lockhart (2) Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (3) John B. Herrington	23 November 2002 STS-113, Endeavour	ISS		7 December 2002 STS-113, Endeavour	ISS assembly, crew rotation and supply.
238	Kenneth D. Bowersox (5) Donald R. Pettit (1) Nikolai Budarin (3)	23 November 2002 STS-113, Endeavour	ISS (crew 6)		4 May 2003 Soyuz TMA-1	ISS assembly, crew rotation and supply.
239	Rick D. Husband (2) William C. McCool David M. Brown Kalpana Chawla (2) Michael P. Anderson (2) Laurel B. Clark Ilan Ramon	16 January 2003 STS-107, Columbia		1 February 2003 STS-107, Columbia		Microgravity and Earth science research. First Israeli in space (Ramon). Broke up during re-entry with loss of all crew.
240	Yuri Malenchenko (3) Edward T. Lu (3)	25 April 2003 Soyuz TMA-2	ISS (crew 7)		27 October 2003 Soyuz TMA-2	ISS crew rotation.
241	Yang Liwei	15 October 2003 Shenzhou 5				First human spaceflight of the People's Republic of China.
242	Pedro Duque (2)	18 October 2003 Soyuz TMA-3	ISS		27 October 2003 Soyuz TMA-2	ISS crew rotation.
242	Aleksandr Kaleri (4) C. Michael Foale (6)	18 October 2003 Soyuz TMA-3	ISS (crew 8)		29 April 2004 Soyuz TMA-3	ISS crew rotation.
243	André Kuipers (1)	19 April 2004 Soyuz TMA-4	ISS		29 April 2004 Soyuz TMA-3	ISS crew rotation.
243	Gennady Padalka (2) E. Michael Fincke (1)	19 April 2004 Soyuz TMA-4	ISS (crew 9)		24 October 2004 Soyuz TMA-4	ISS crew rotation.
244	Michael W. Melvill (1)	21 June 2004 Flight 15P, SpaceShipOne				First human spaceflight of commercial spaceship.
245	Michael W. Melvill (2)	29 September 2004 Flight 16P, SpaceShipOne				Ansari X Prize flight #1.
246	W. Brian Binnie	4 October 2004 Flight 17P, SpaceShipOne				Ansari X Prize flight #2, winning the prize.
247	Yuri Shargin	14 October 2004 Soyuz TMA-5	ISS		24 October 2004 Soyuz TMA-4	ISS crew rotation.
247	Salizhan Sharipov (2) Leroy Chiao (4)	14 October 2004 Soyuz TMA-5	ISS (crew 10)		24 April 2005 Soyuz TMA-5	ISS crew rotation.
248	Roberto Vittori (2)	15 April 2005 Soyuz TMA-6	ISS		24 April 2005 Soyuz TMA-5	ISS crew rotation.
248	Sergei Krikalev (6) John L. Phillips (2)	15 April 2005 Soyuz TMA-6	ISS (crew 11)		11 October 2005 Soyuz TMA-6	ISS crew rotation.
249	Eileen M. Collins (4) James M. Kelly (2) Stephen K. Robinson (3) Andrew S. W. Thomas (4) Wendy B. Lawrence (4) Charles J. Camarda Soichi Noguchi (1)	26 July 2005 STS-114, Discovery	ISS		9 August 2005 STS-114, Discovery	First "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission after the loss of Columbia. ISS assembly and supply.
250	Gregory H. Olsen	1 October 2005 Soyuz TMA-7	ISS		11 October 2005 Soyuz TMA-6	ISS crew rotation. Third space tourist (Olsen).
250	Valery Tokarev (2) William S. McArthur (4)	1 October 2005 Soyuz TMA-7	ISS (crew 12)		8 April 2006 Soyuz TMA-7	ISS crew rotation. Third space tourist (Olsen).
251	Fèi Jùnlóng (1) Niè Hǎishèng (1)	12 October 2005 Shenzhou 6		16 October 2005 Shenzhou 6		Second human spaceflight of the People's Republic of China.
252	Marcos Pontes	30 March 2006 Soyuz TMA-8	ISS (MC)		8 April 2006 Soyuz TMA-7	ISS crew rotation. First Brazilian in space (Pontes).
252	Pavel Vinogradov (2) Jeffrey N. Williams (2)	30 March 2006 Soyuz TMA-8	ISS (crew 13)		29 September 2006 Soyuz TMA-8	ISS crew rotation. First Brazilian in space (Pontes).
253	Steven W. Lindsey (4) Mark Kelly (2) Michael E. Fossum (1) Piers J. Sellers (2) Lisa M. Nowak Stephanie D. Wilson (1)	4 July 2006 STS-121, Discovery	ISS		17 July 2006 STS-121, Discovery	ISS crew rotation and supply. Safety and repair system testing. First long-duration ISS mission by an ESA astronaut (Reiter).
253	Thomas Reiter (2)	4 July 2006 STS-121, Discovery	ISS (crew 13/14)		22 December 2006 STS-116, Discovery
254	Brent W. Jett (4) Christopher J. Ferguson (1) Joseph R. Tanner (4) Daniel C. Burbank (2) Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper (1) Steven G. MacLean (2)	9 September 2006 STS-115, Atlantis	ISS		21 September 2006 STS-115, Atlantis	Resumption of ISS assembly. First Canadian to operate Canadarm2. Delivery of the second set of solar arrays and batteries.
255	Anousheh Ansari	18 September 2006 Soyuz TMA-9	ISS		29 September 2006 Soyuz TMA-8	ISS crew rotation. First female space tourist (Ansari). First Persian in space (Ansari).
255	Mikhail Tyurin (2) Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (4)	18 September 2006 Soyuz TMA-9	ISS (crew 14)		21 April 2007 Soyuz TMA-9
256	Mark L. Polansky (2) William A. Oefelein Robert L. Curbeam (3) Joan E. Higginbotham Nicholas J.M. Patrick (1) Christer Fuglesang (1)	10 December 2006 STS-116, Discovery	ISS		22 December 2006 STS-116, Discovery	ISS crew rotation and assembly First Swede in space (Fuglesang)
256	Sunita L. Williams (1)	10 December 2006 STS-116, Discovery	ISS (crew 14/15)		22 June 2007 STS-117, Atlantis
257	Charles Simonyi (1)	7 April 2007 Soyuz TMA-10	ISS		21 April 2007 Soyuz TMA-9	ISS crew rotation. Space tourist flight. (Fifth space tourist and the second Hungarian, Simonyi, in space)
257	Oleg Kotov (1) Fyodor Yurchikhin (2)	7 April 2007 Soyuz TMA-10	ISS (crew 15)		21 October 2007 Soyuz TMA-10
258	Frederick W. Sturckow (3) Lee J. Archambault (1) Patrick G. Forrester (2) Steven R. Swanson (1) John D. Olivas (1) James F. Reilly (3)	8 June 2007 STS-117, Atlantis	ISS		22 June 2007 STS-117, Atlantis	ISS crew rotation and assembly
258	Clayton C. Anderson (1)	8 June 2007 STS-117, Atlantis	ISS (crew 15/16)		7 November 2007 STS-120, Discovery	ISS crew rotation and assembly
259	Scott Kelly (2) Charles O. Hobaugh (2) Tracy E. Caldwell Dyson (1) Richard A. Mastracchio (2) Barbara R. Morgan Benjamin A. Drew (1) Dafydd R. Williams (2)	8 August 2007 STS-118, Endeavour	ISS		21 August 2007 STS-118, Endeavour	ISS assembly
260	Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor	10 October 2007 Soyuz TMA-11	ISS		21 October 2007 Soyuz TMA-10	ISS crew rotation. First Malaysian in space (Shukor). First female ISS commander (Whitson).
260	Yuri Malenchenko (4) Peggy A. Whitson (2)	10 October 2007 Soyuz TMA-11	ISS (crew 16)		19 April 2008 Soyuz TMA-11
261	Pamela A. Melroy (3) George D. Zamka (1) Scott E. Parazynski (5) Stephanie D. Wilson (2) Douglas H. Wheelock (1) Paolo Nespoli (1)	23 October 2007 STS-120, Discovery	ISS		7 November 2007 STS-120, Discovery	ISS crew rotation and assembly
261	Daniel M. Tani (2)	23 October 2007 STS-120, Discovery	ISS (crew 16)		20 February 2008 STS-122, Atlantis	ISS crew rotation and assembly
262	Stephen N. Frick (2) Alan G. Poindexter (1) Leland D. Melvin (1) Rex J. Walheim (2) Stanley G. Love Hans Schlegel (2)	7 February 2008 STS-122, Atlantis	ISS		20 February 2008 STS-122, Atlantis	ISS crew rotation and assembly
262	Léopold Eyharts (2)	7 February 2008 STS-122, Atlantis	ISS (crew 16)		27 March 2008 STS-123, Endeavour	ISS crew rotation and assembly
263	Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie (4) Gregory H. Johnson (1) Robert L. Behnken (1) Michael J. Foreman (1) Richard M. Linnehan (4) Takao Doi (2)	11 March 2008 STS-123, Endeavour	ISS		27 March 2008 STS-123, Endeavour	ISS crew rotation and assembly
263	Garrett E. Reisman (1)	11 March 2008 STS-123, Endeavour	ISS (crew 16/17)		14 June 2008 STS-124, Discovery	ISS crew rotation and assembly
264	Yi So-yeon	8 April 2008 Soyuz TMA-12	ISS		19 April 2008 Soyuz TMA-11	ISS crew rotation. First South Korean in space (Yi) First second-generation cosmonaut (Volkov).
264	Sergey Volkov (1) Oleg Kononenko (1)	8 April 2008 Soyuz TMA-12	ISS (crew 17)		24 October 2008 Soyuz TMA-12
265	Mark Kelly (3) Kenneth T. Ham (1) Karen L. Nyberg (1) Ronald J. Garan (1) Michael E. Fossum (2) Akihiko Hoshide (1)	31 May 2008 STS-124, Discovery	ISS		14 June 2008 STS-124, Discovery	ISS assembly and crew rotation Delivery of Kibo Japanese Experiment Module
265	Gregory E. Chamitoff (1)	31 May 2008 STS-124, Discovery	ISS (crew 17/18)		30 November 2008 STS-126, Endeavour
266	Zhai Zhigang (1) Liu Boming (1) Jing Haipeng (1)	25 September 2008 Shenzhou 7		28 September 2008 Shenzhou 7		Third human spaceflight and first spacewalk for China.
267	Richard A. Garriot	12 October 2008 Soyuz TMA-13	ISS		24 October 2008 Soyuz TMA-12	ISS crew rotation.
267	Yuri Lonchakov (3) E. Michael Fincke (2)	12 October 2008 Soyuz TMA-13	ISS (crew 18)		8 April 2009 Soyuz TMA-13	ISS crew rotation.
268	Christopher J. Ferguson (2) Eric A. Boe (1) Donald R. Pettit (2) Stephen G. Bowen (1) Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper (2) Robert S. Kimbrough (1)	15 November 2008 STS-126, Endeavour	ISS		30 November 2008 STS-126, Endeavour	ISS logistics and crew rotation
268	Sandra H. Magnus (2)	15 November 2008 STS-126, Endeavour	ISS (crew 18)		29 March 2009 STS-119, Discovery	ISS logistics and crew rotation
269	Lee J. Archambault (2) Dominic A. Antonelli (1) Joseph M. Acaba (1) Steven R. Swanson (2) Richard R. Arnold (1) John L. Phillips (3)	15 March 2009 STS-119, Discovery	ISS		29 March 2009 STS-119, Discovery	Delivery of final solar power generation module and crew rotation
269	Koichi Wakata (3)	15 March 2009 STS-119, Discovery	ISS (crew 18/19/20)		31 July 2009 STS-127, Endeavour
270	Charles Simonyi (2)	26 March 2009 Soyuz TMA-14	ISS		8 April 2009 Soyuz TMA-13	ISS crew rotation.
270	Gennady Padalka (3) Michael R. Barratt (1)	26 March 2009 Soyuz TMA-14	ISS (crew 19/20)		11 October 2009 Soyuz TMA-14	ISS crew rotation.
271	Scott D. Altman (4) Gregory C. Johnson Michael T. Good (1) K. Megan McArthur (1) John M. Grunsfeld (5) Michael J. Massimino (2) Andrew J. Feustel (1)	11 May 2009 STS-125, Atlantis		24 May 2009 STS-125, Atlantis		Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4
272	Roman Romanenko (1) Frank De Winne (2) Robert Thirsk (2)	27 May 2009 Soyuz TMA-15	ISS (crew 20/21)		1 December 2009 Soyuz TMA-15	ISS crew rotation.
273	Mark L. Polansky (3) Douglas G. Hurley (1) Christopher J. Cassidy (1) Thomas H. Marshburn (1) David A. Wolf (4) Julie Payette (2)	15 July 2009 STS-127, Endeavour	ISS		31 July 2009 STS-127, Endeavour	Delivery of Japanese exposed facility and crew rotation
273	Timothy L. Kopra (1)	15 July 2009 STS-127, Endeavour	ISS (crew 20)		11 September 2009 STS-128, Discovery	Delivery of Japanese exposed facility and crew rotation
274	Frederick W. Sturckow (4) Kevin A. Ford (1) Patrick G. Forrester (3) José M. Hernández John D. Olivas (2) Christer Fuglesang (2)	28 August 2009 STS-128, Discovery	ISS		11 September 2009 STS-128, Discovery	Delivery of experiments, logistics, and crew rotation
274	Nicole P. Stott (1)	28 August 2009 STS-128, Discovery	ISS (crew 20/21)		27 November 2009 STS-129, Atlantis	Delivery of experiments, logistics, and crew rotation
275	Guy Laliberté	30 September 2009 Soyuz TMA-16	ISS		11 October 2009 Soyuz TMA-14	First Canadian space tourist, ISS crew rotation.
275	Maksim Surayev (1) Jeffrey N. Williams (3)	30 September 2009 Soyuz TMA-16	ISS (crew 21/22)		18 March 2010 Soyuz TMA-16	First Canadian space tourist, ISS crew rotation.
276	Charles O. Hobaugh (3) Barry E. Wilmore (1) Leland D. Melvin (2) Randolph J. Bresnik (1) Michael J. Foreman (2) Robert L. Satcher	16 November 2009 STS-129, Atlantis	ISS		27 November 2009 STS-129, Atlantis	ISS assembly Delivery of ELC1 and ELC2
277	Oleg Kotov (2) Timothy J. Creamer Soichi Noguchi (2)	20 December 2009 Soyuz TMA-17	ISS (crew 22/23)		2 June 2010 Soyuz TMA-17	ISS crew rotation.
278	George D. Zamka (2) Terry W. Virts (1) Kathryn P. Hire (2) Stephen K. Robinson (4) Nicolas J.M. Patrick (2) Robert L. Behnken (2)	8 February 2010 STS-130, Endeavour	ISS		22 February 2010 STS-130, Endeavour	ISS assembly Delivery of Tranquility and Cupola
279	Aleksandr Skvortsov (1) Mikhail Korniyenko (1) Tracy E. Caldwell Dyson (2)	2 April 2010 Soyuz TMA-18	ISS (crew 23/24)		25 September 2010 Soyuz TMA-18	ISS crew rotation.
280	Alan G. Poindexter (2) James P. Dutton Richard A. Mastracchio (3) Clayton C. Anderson (2) Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger Stephanie D. Wilson (3) Naoko Yamazaki	5 April 2010 STS-131, Discovery	ISS		20 April 2010 STS-131, Discovery	ISS assembly Delivery of experiments and logistics
281	Kenneth T. Ham (2) Dominic A. Antonelli (2) Garrett E. Reisman (2) Michael T. Good (2) Stephen G. Bowen (2) Piers J. Sellers (3)	14 May 2010 STS-132, Atlantis	ISS		26 May 2010 STS-132, Atlantis	Delivery of experiments Delivery of Rassvet
282	Fyodor Yurchikhin (3) Shannon Walker (1) Douglas H. Wheelock (2)	15 June 2010 Soyuz TMA-19	ISS (crew 24/25)		26 November 2010 Soyuz TMA-19	ISS crew rotation.
283	Aleksandr Kaleri (5) Oleg Skripochka (1) Scott Kelly (3)	7 October 2010 Soyuz TMA-01M	ISS (crew 25/26)		16 March 2011 Soyuz TMA-01M	ISS crew rotation.
284	Dmitri Kondratyev Catherine G. Coleman (3) Paolo Nespoli (2)	15 December 2010 Soyuz TMA-20	ISS (crew 26/27)		24 May 2011 Soyuz TMA-20	ISS crew rotation.

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