Space Station crew News

The six astronauts and cosmonauts will go into the last weekend of 2017 with light duty and family conferences before taking the New Year's Day off.  

The crew members will spend about six months conducting approximately 250 science investigations in fields such as biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences and technology development — research that impacts life on Earth.

The Expedition 54 crew continues operating the station, with Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos in command. 

In April, Whitson broke the 534-day US record for cumulative time in space and has spent a career-total of 665 days in space.

Astronauts Joe Acaba, Ricky Arnold, Nick Hague, Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Shannon Walker all have begun training for missions launching later this year and throughout 2018.

Our eyes have been subjected to what can possibly be called some of the most magnificent views mankind has ever seen.

US astronaut Randy Bresnik, Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will be launched to the ISS in the spring of 2017.

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, will travel for two days in the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft to test upgraded spacecraft systems before docking to the space station’s Poisk module at 5:59 am on Friday, October 21. NASA TV coverage of the docking will begin at 5:15 am, as per NASA schedule.

The Soyuz spacecraft was supposed to carry three crew members as part of Expedition 49 to the International Space Station.