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Expedition 61
Expedition 62
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Expedition 60 is the 60th Expedition to the International Space Station, scheduled to start on 25 June 2019 with the departure of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft. The expedition will be commanded by Aleksey Ovchinin, who will transfer from Expedition 59 together with American flight engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch. They will be joined by Aleksandr Skvortsov, Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan, arriving on Soyuz MS-13 in early July 2019.
1st All-Women Spacewalk Christina Koch & Jessica Meir
Expedition 61 is the 61st Expedition to the International Space Station, scheduled to begin in late 2019 with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft. The Expedition will be commanded by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, who will become the third European and first Italian astronaut to command the ISS. Parmitano, along with Soyuz MS-13 colleagues Aleksandr Skvortsov, Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch will transfer over from Expedition 60. They will be joined by Oleg Skripochka and Jessica Meir, who will launch in September 2019 on board Soyuz MS-15.
Expedition 62 is the 62nd long duration mission to the International Space Station, scheduled to begin in February 2020 with the unlocking of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft. The Expedition will consist of Russian commander Oleg Skripochka, as well as American flight engineers Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan. The remaining members of the crew are scheduled to arrive on the first operational flight of an American Commercial Crew Vehicle. It is currently unknown which crew will fly this mission; the only known crew member is Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. According to a Flight Planning Integration Panel (FPIP) document obtained by NASAspaceflight.com in June 2019, Noguchi would fly this mission regardless of which American Commercial Crew Vehicle was ready for the crew rotation, but the two American astronauts would depend on the vehicle in question.
Expedition 63 is the 63rd long duration mission to the International Space Station, scheduled to begin in April 2020 with the undocking of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft. The Expedition will consist of American commander Chris Cassidy, as well as Russian flight engineers Nikolai Tikhonov and Andrei Babkin. It is currently unknown if the Expedition will only consist of three crew members, or if other crew members will be delivered onboard a US Commercial Crew vehicle.
Expedition 64 will be the 64th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station, scheduled to begin in October 2020 with the un-docking and departure of Soyuz MS-16. The Expedition will consist of three crew members launched onboard Soyuz MS-17, with the remainder of the crew scheduled to be launched aboard the USCV-1 flight currently set to launch in late September 2020, the first operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and the Commercial Crew Program, particularly given the success of SpaceX's DM-2 mission, which ran from 30 May to 2 August 2020. USCV-1 may last for 210 days until late March, if it flies on time for Expedition 64. The mission is scheduled to end on 18 April 2021 with the departure of Soyuz MS-17.
Expedition 65 is scheduled to be the 65th long duration expedition to the International Space Station. The mission is scheduled to begin on 9 April 2021, with the departure of Soyuz MS-17. The senior crew will be made up of SpaceX Crew-2 crew members Shane Kimbrough, Akihiko Hoshide, Megan McArthur and Thomas Pesquet, who will transfer from Expedition 64, with Hoshide taking command of the station for the increment. They will be joined by Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Sergey Korsakov, who will launch on Soyuz MS-18.
Expedition 66 is scheduled to be the 66th long duration Expedition to the International Space Station. The mission will begin upon the departure of Soyuz MS-18, currently scheduled for 13 October 2021. The mission will be commanded by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who will become the fourth European astronaut to command the ISS, and the first French astronaut to command the orbital laboratory.
Pesquet launched on SpaceX Crew-2 in April 2021, joined by NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, as well as JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. The Crew-2 crew will transfer over from Expedition 65, as well as Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who both launched on Soyuz MS-18 and will land on Soyuz MS-19 following an extended mission. Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who will launch on Soyuz MS-19, and will join the crew from the beginning of the Expedition. SpaceX Crew-3, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron, as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer will launch to the station to join the Expedition no earlier than 23 October 2021. Shkaplerov, Dubrov, Vande Hei, Chari, Marshburn, Barron and Maurer will transfer to Expedition 67 at the end of the Expedition in late 2021.
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At the time of the anniversary, the station’s odometer read more than 1.5 billion statute miles (the equivalent of eight round trips to the Sun), over the course of 57,361 orbits around the Earth.
As of July 2012, there have been 125 launches to the space station since the launch of the first module, Zarya, at 1:40 a.m. EST on Nov. 20, 1998: 81 Russian vehicles, 37 space shuttles, one U.S. commercial vehicle, three European and three Japanese vehicles. The final space shuttle mission July 8-21, 2011, by Atlantis delivered 4.5 tons of supplies in the Raffaello logistics module.
A total of 162 spacewalks have been conducted in support of space station assembly totaling more than 1,021 hours.
The space station, including its large solar arrays, spans the area of a U.S. football field, including the end zones, and weighs 861,804 pounds, not including visiting vehicles. The complex now has more livable room than a conventional five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, a gymnasium and a 360-degree bay window.
The International Space Station marked its 10th anniversary of continuous human occupation on Nov. 2, 2010. Since Expedition 1, which launched Oct. 31, 2000, and docked Nov. 2, the space station has been visited by 204 individuals.