List of visiting expeditions to the International Space Station

International Space Station in 2018.

Visiting expeditions to the International Space Station are teams of one to three astronauts who visit the ISS by Soyuz on short duration expeditions. EP-N is a term used by RKK Energia, meaning both "Visiting Crew" ^[1] as "Visiting Expedition". ^[2]

Humans have been on the ISS on a temporary basis since December 1998 and on a permanent basis since November 2000. The permanent occupation of the station is carried out by core crews, who usually stay for six months. Along with this, space shuttles have also been to the ISS during the construction of the station.

Three-seat, single-use Soyuz serve as lifeboats on the ISS, changing every six months. If transporting the core members does not fully occupy the Soyuz, the ships end up being crewed by astronauts returning after a week or ten days on the space shuttle (usually representatives of space agencies other than Russia or space tourists) or by the Soyuz. These crew members are the "visiting team" and their expeditions are called "visiting expeditions" (Russian: экспедиция посещения, or ЭП). In the period 2000–2002, when crews were switched to the space shuttle, visiting expeditions ended up being three people. From 2003 to 2009, there was only one seat available on the Soyuz in addition to two main crew seats. Since 2009, the main crews have been six crew members and the Soyuz was solely used for its transportation until the Crew Dragon launch. The next short visit did not occur until September 2015, in connection with the one-year mission to the ISS, and then in 2019.

Continued international collaboration on ISS missions has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia. ^[3]

List

• Dates beside "Expedition X" are from the stay at the station.

     Flights with space tourists.

Nº [4]	Crew [5]	Image	Launch (UTC)	Landing (UTC)	Backup [5]	Ref.
1st Visiting Expedition 30 April 2001 – 6 May 2001
1	Talgat Musabayev Yuri Baturin Dennis Tito [a]		28 April 2001 07:37:19 (Soyuz TM-32)	6 May 2001 05:41:28 (Soyuz TM-31)	Viktor Afanasyev Konstantin Kozeyev	[6] [7]
			7d 22h 4m 9s
2nd Visiting Expedition Andromeda Program 23 October 2001 – 31 October 2001
2	Viktor Afanasyev Claudie Haigneré Konstantin Kozeyev		21 October 2001 08:59:34 (Soyuz TM-33)	31 October 2001 04:59:25 (Soyuz TM-32)	Sergei Zalyotin Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya	[8] [9]
			9d 19h 59m 51s
3rd Visiting Expedition Marco Polo Program 27 April 2002 – 5 May 2002
3	Yuri Gidzenko Roberto Vittori Mark Shuttleworth [a]		25 April 2002 06:26:35 (Soyuz TM-34)	5 May 2002 03:51:40 (Soyuz TM-33)	Gennady Padalka Oleg Kononenko	[10] [11]
			9d 21h 25m 5s
4th Visiting Expedition Odissea Program 1 November 2002 – 9 November 2002
4	Sergei Zalyotin Frank De Winne Yuri Lonchakov		30 October 2002 03:11:10 (Soyuz TMA-1)	10 November 2002 00:04:20 (Soyuz TM-34)	Yuri Lonchakov Aleksandr Lazutkin	[12] [13]
			10d 20h 53m 10s
5th Visiting Expedition Cervantes Program 20 October 2003 – 27 October 2003
5	Pedro Duque		18 October 2003 05:38:03 (Soyuz TMA-3)	28 October 2003 02:40:20 (Soyuz TMA-2)	André Kuipers	[14] [15]
			9d 21h 2m 17s
6th Visiting Expedition Delta Program 21 April 2004 – 29 April 2004
6	André Kuipers		19 April 2004 03:19:00 (Soyuz TMA-4)	30 April 2004 00:11:15 (Soyuz TMA-3)	Gerhard Thiele	[16] [17]
			10d 20h 52m 15s
7th Visiting Expedition 16 October 2004 – 24 October 2004
7	Yuri Shargin		14 October 2004 03:06:27 (Soyuz TMA-5)	24 October 2004 00:35:08 (Soyuz TMA-4)	Without backup.	[18] [19]
			9d 21h 28m 41s
8th Visiting Expedition Eneid Program 17 April 2005 – 24 April 2005
8	Roberto Vittori		15 April 2005 00:46:25 (Soyuz TMA-6)	24 April 2005 22:08:27 (Soyuz TMA-5)	Robert Thirsk	[20] [21]
			9d 21h 22m 2s
9th Visiting Expedition 3 October 2005 – 10 October 2005
9	Gregory Olsen		1 October 2005 03:54:53 (Soyuz TMA-7)	11 October 2005 01:09:47 (Soyuz TMA-6)	Sergei Kostenko  [ cs ]	[22] [23]
			9d 21h 14m 54s
10th Visiting Expedition Missão Centenário 1 April 2006 – 8 April 2006
10	Marcos Pontes		30 March 2006 02:30:20 (Soyuz TMA-8)	8 April 2006 23:47:12 (Soyuz TMA-7)	Sergey Volkov	[24] [25]
	Visiting astronaut [b]		9d 21h 16m 52s
11th Visiting Expedition 20 September 2006 – 29 September 2006
11	Anousheh Ansari		19 September 2006 04:08:42 (Soyuz TMA-9)	29 September 2006 01:13:37 (Soyuz TMA-8)	Without backup.	[26] [27]
			9d 21h 4m 55s
12th Visiting Expedition 9 April 2007 – 21 April 2007
12	Charles Simonyi		7 April 2007 17:31:14 (Soyuz TMA-10)	21 April 2007 12:31:04 (Soyuz TMA-9)	Without backup.	[28] [29]
			13d 18h 59m 50s
13th Visiting Expedition 12 October 2007 – 21 October 2007
13	Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor		10 October 2007 13:22:38 (Soyuz TMA-11)	21 October 2007 10:35:49 (Soyuz TMA-10)	Faiz Khaleed	[30] [31]
	Visiting astronaut [b]		10d 21h 13m 11s
14th Visiting Expedition Korean Astronaut Program 10 April 2008 – 19 April 2008
14	Yi So-yeon		8 April 2008 11:16:38 (Soyuz TMA-12)	19 April 2008 08:29:43 (Soyuz TMA-11)	Ko San	[32] [33]
	Visiting astronaut [b]		10d 21h 13m 5s
15th Visiting Expedition Generation II Astronaut 14 October 2008 – 24 October 2008
15	Richard Garriott		12 October 2008 07:01:33 (Soyuz TMA-13)	24 October 2008 03:36:49 (Soyuz TMA-12)	Nik Halik	[34] [35]
			11d 20h 35m 16s
16th Visiting Expedition 28 March 2009 – 8 April 2009
16	Charles Simonyi		26 March 2009 11:49:18 (Soyuz TMA-14)	8 April 2009 07:15:09 (Soyuz TMA-13)	Esther Dyson	[36] [37]
			12d 19h 25m 51s
17th Visiting Expedition Poetic Social Mission 2 October 2009 – 11 October 2009
17	Guy Laliberté		30 September 2009 07:14:44 (Soyuz TMA-16)	11 October 2009 04:31:43 (Soyuz TMA-14)	Barbara Barrett	[38] [39]
			10d 21h 16m 59s
18th Visiting Expedition 4 September 2015 – 19 September 2015
18	Andreas Mogensen Aidyn Aimbetov		2 September 2015 04:37:43 (Soyuz TMA-18M)	12 September 2015 00:51:30 (Soyuz TMA-16M)	Thomas Pesquet Sergey Prokopyev	[40] [41]
			9d 20h 13m 47s
19th Visiting Expedition UAE Astronaut Mission 1 25 September 2019 – 3 October 2019
19	Hazza Al Mansouri		25 September 2019 13:57:42 (Soyuz MS-15)	3 October 2019 10:59:21 (Soyuz MS-12)	Sultan Al Neyadi	[42] [43]
	Visiting astronaut [b]		7d 21h 1m 39s
Visiting Expedition Vyzov 5 October 2021 – 17 October 2021
–	Klim Shipenko Yulia Peresild		5 October 2021 08:55:02 (Soyuz MS-19)	17 October 2021 04:35:42 (Soyuz MS-18)	Aleksei Dudin Alyona Mordovina	[45] [46] [47] [48] [49]
			11d 19h 40m 40s
	Spaceflight participants
20th Visiting Expedition 8 December 2021 – 20 December 2021
20	Aleksandr Misurkin Yusaku Maezawa [a] Yozo Hirano [a]		8 December 2021 07:38:15 (Soyuz MS-20)	20 December 2021 03:13:18 (Soyuz MS-20)	Alexandr Skvortsov Shun Ogiso [a]	[50] [51]
			11d 19h 35m 3s
21st Visiting Expedition 23 March 2024 – 6 April 2024
21	Oleg Novitsky Maryna Vasileuskaya [b]		23 March 2024 12:36:10 (Soyuz MS-25)	6 April 2024 07:17:47 (Soyuz MS-24)	Ivan Vagner Anastasia Lenkova	[52] [53] [54]
			13d 18h 41m 37s

Cancelled

Expeditions canceled due to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

Crew [5]	Launch [5]	Duration	Backup [5]	Ref.
5th Visiting Expedition
Gennady Padalka Pedro Duque	28 April 2003 (Soyuz TMA-2A)	10 days	Sergei Krikalev Oleg Kotov	[55] [56]
6th Visiting Expedition
Sergei Krikalev André Kuipers	18 October 2003 (Soyuz TMA-3A)	10 days	Yury Onufriyenko Oleg Skripochka	[55] [57]

See also

• Space tourism
• Spaceflight participant
• List of human spaceflights
• List of ESA space expeditions
• List of International Space Station expeditions

Notes

1. Space tourist
2. Flew through a commercial agreement with Roscosmos as a "spaceflight participant." NASA, however, uses the term "visiting astronaut" for crew members who undergo extensive professional training and conduct scientific research aboard the station. ^[44]

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