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Using their Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and NASA astronaut Anne McClain are expected to return to Earth. Upon their departure, Expedition 60 will begin.
Beginning June 24, 2019; will transition to Expedition 61 on Oct. 3, 2019
Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
| Commander
Nick Hague, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Christina Koch*, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Launched: March 14, 2019, aboard Soyuz MS-12
Expected landing: Oct. 3, 2019
Aleksandr Skvortsov, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Drew Morgan**, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Luca Parmitano, ESA
| Flight Engineer
Launching: July 20, 2019, aboard Soyuz MS-13
Expected landing: Feb. 6, 2020
* Koch is expected to stay aboard the ISS for an additional five months. She flew into space March 14, 2019, aboard Soyuz MS-12 and should land with the Soyuz MS-13 crew in February 2020.
** Morgan is also expected to stay aboard the ISS for an additional three months. He is slated to fly to the outpost on July 6, 2019, aboard Soyuz MS-13 and should land with the Soyuz MS-15 crew in March 2020.
Launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in July 2019, Soyuz MS-13 is expected to bring three more people to the International Space Station: Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Drew Morgan.
SpaceX’s 18th Commercial Resupply Services Dragon mission to the International Space Station is scheduled to launch mid-summer atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. It’s main cargo is a second international docking adapter for the outpost.
Following launch and a roughly two-day rendezvous, SpaceX’s CRS-18 Dragon capsule is expected to arrive at the International Space Station to begin an approximately one-month stay attached to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module.
Once at the International Space Station, the NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft is expected to spend about three months attached before departing with thousands of kilograms of trash for eventual burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
After about four months docked to the Pirs module, Progress MS-11 is expected to leave the International Space Station. Following its departure, it is expected to eventually perform a deorbit burn and perform a destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.
In mid-summer, Russia is slated to send its Progress MS-12 cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. It is expected to arrive at the outpost around two days later to dock with the Pirs module on the Earth-facing side of the station.
After a roughly one-month stay attached to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module, SpaceX’s CRS-18 Dragon is slated to be unberthed and de-orbited for a splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of Baja California.
After years of development, Boeing is set to launch its first CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. This test mission will be uncrewed and launch to the International Space Station atop an Atlas V N22 rocket.
Soyuz MS-14 is slated to be a rare uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft. It is expected to launch atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket, testing modifications of the launch abort system’s integration to the rocket. Crewed Soyuz spacecraft typically launch on the Soyuz-FG rocket, which is being phased out.
Following its two-week docked mission to the International Space Station, the Starliner Orbital Flight Test spacecraft will undock from the outpost and perform a deorbit burn to land in the Western United States.
Following several weeks docked to the Poisk module, the uncrewed Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft is slated to undocking, perform a de-orbit burn and land in Kazakhstan.
The eighth Japanese cargo ship bound for the International Space Station, Kounotori 8, is set to launch to the outpost in late summer or early fall 2019.
Following a successful launch, Kounotori 8 is expected to spend several days catching up with the International Space Station in order to rendezvous and berth with the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module.
After spending seven months in space, the crew of Soyuz MS-12—Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch—are set to return to Earth. Upon their undocking, Expedition 60 will end and Expedition 61 will begin.
After several months attached to the International Space Station, Kounotori 8 is expected to be filled with trash and unneeded equipment before being unberthed and eventually deorbited for disposal over the Pacific Ocean.
SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 is expected to be the second flight test of the company’s first human-rated spacecraft. Unlike Demo-1 in March 2019, Demo-2 will have two astronauts aboard: NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken. This flight’s launch date is dependent on a number of factors ranging from the outcome and results of the Demo-1 mission, an in-flight abort test and other items needed before the vehicle is dubbed ready for humans.
Following a launch and docking in October 2018, Progress MS-10 planned to depart from the outpost on Feb. 4, 2019. After leaving, the unpiloted spacecraft is expected to remain in orbit flying independently of the ISS until late March 2019.
After about a month attached to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon is expected to be unberthed and released. After several hours drifting away from the outpost, it should perform a deorbit burn and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Following a successful launch atop a Falcon 9 from Florida, SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon is expected to rendezvous with the International Space Station. Following a capture and berthing, the vehicle’s hatch will be opened and the cargo unloaded by the outpost’s crew.
SpaceX is contracted with NASA to send a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station to deliver thousands of kilograms of cargo. Liftoff atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 is expected in spring 2019.
Following its launch, Northrop Grumman’s NG-11 Cygnus is expected to take several days to rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station. It is set to be attached to the Earth-facing port of the Unity module.
Northrop Grumman is expect to fly its first International Space Station resupply mission of 2019 in the spring with the launch of the NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft. It will lift off atop an Antares 230 rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, and is expected to rendezvous and berth with the outpost several days later.
Expedition 59 Flight Engineers Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques of NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, respectively, are venturing outside the International Space Station to perform maintenance on the outpost in a 6.5-hour spacewalk.
Russia launched Progress MS-11 atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to send supplies to the International Space Station. Following a successful orbital insertion, the autonomous cargo vehicle is scheduled to reach the station in just over three hours before autonomously docking with the Pirs module.
Expedition 59 Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch (both NASA astronauts), are set to venture outside the International Space Station to finish work to replace batteries on the outpost’s P4 Truss segment.
Expedition 59 Flight Engineers Anne McClain and Nick Hague (both NASA astronauts), are set to venture outside the International Space Station to begin work to replace batteries on the outpost’s P4 Truss segment.
Beginning March 2019; will transition to Expedition 60 on June 25, 2019
Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos
| Commander
Anne McClain, NASA
| Flight Engineer
David Saint-Jacques, CSA
| Flight Engineer
Launched: Dec. 3, 2018, aboard Soyuz MS-11
Expected landing: June 25, 2019
Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Nick Hague, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Christina Koch, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Launching: March 14, 2019 aboard Soyuz MS-12
Expected landing: Oct. 3, 2019
Editor’s note: This event has passed. More details about Expedition 59 can be found by clicking the link below.
Soyuz MS-12 launched three people to the International Space Station: Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin as well as NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch. They linked up with the outpost’s Rassvet module and joined already-aboard Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques and NASA astronaut Anne McClain as part of Expedition 59.
After a planned 5-day mission docked to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s unpiloted Crew Dragon spacecraft undocked and began its return to Earth via a parachute-assisted splashdown in the ocean. The spacecraft docked on March 3.
For the better part of a decade, NASA and its commercial partners have been working toward re-establishing the United States’ domestic human spaceflight launch capability. SpaceX is expected to perform the first major test flight for its Crew Dragon via the unpiloted Demo-1 flight to the International Space Station.
Northrup Grumman’s NG-10 Cgynus spacecraft has been attached to the International Space Station since Nov. 19, 2018. It is expected to remain there until February 2019 before being loaded with trash and unneeded equipment and unberthed. It will eventually be deorbited and burn up upon re-entry over the Pacific Ocean.
Progress MS-09 arrived at the ISS in July 2018 and docked to the Pirs module after just 2.5 orbits of Earth. It is expected to undock with the module on Dec. 23, 2018, and spend an additional month free-flying around the planet for ground teams to conduct engineering tests. The exact departure time has yet to be announced.
After spending about a month attached to the International Space Station, SpaceX's CRS-16 Dragon spacecraft will be loaded with equipment to return to Earth before being unberthed. It is then expected to drift away from the outpost over the next several hours before performing a deorbit burn and re-entering the atmosphere to splash down the Pacific Ocean for recovery.
Beginning Dec. 20, 2018; will transition to Expedition 59 in March 2019
Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos
| Commander
Anne McClain, NASA
| Flight Engineer
David Saint-Jacques, CSA
| Flight Engineer
Launched: Dec. 3, 2018, aboard Soyuz MS-11
Expected landing: June 25, 2019
Expedition 58 was originally going to include Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague. However, during their ascent into orbit Oct. 11, 2018, in their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, their carrier rocket experienced a failure. They failed to reach orbit and did not join with Expedition 57 and thus Expedition 58.
Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor are set to return to Earth in their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft on Dec. 20, 2018.
Roscosmos is planning a spacewalk, dubbed Russian EVA-45a, in part to investigate the recent microcrack discovered on the orbital module of Soyuz MS-09. During the outing, two cosmonauts are expected to egress from the Pirs module and make their way to the Soyuz to peel back the thermal covering around the hole, which was sealed in late August by the crew of Expedition 56.
Following its Florida launch and a subsequent two-day trek to the International Space Station, SpaceX's CRS-16 Dragon spacecraft is set to rendezvous with the complex before being captured and berthed to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module. It is expected to remain attached for about a month.
SpaceX is set to launch its CRS-16 Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff will be atop a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. After a two-day rendezvous profile, the vehicle is expected to bring several thousand kilograms of supplies and experiments to the outpost.
Three new crew members are planning to launch to the International Space Station in Soyuz MS-11: Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and NASA astronaut Anne McClain. They are expected to remain in orbit until June 2019.
After launching from Wallops Island, Virginia, Northrup Grumman's NG-10 Cgynus spacecraft is set to rendezvous with the International Space Station with some 3,500 kilograms of crew supplies, experiments and hardware. It is expected to be captured and berthed to the Unity module and remain there until late February 2019.
Two days after launch, Progress MS-10 is expected rendezvous and dock with the aft port of the International Space Station’s Zvezda module.
Docking is currently expected to take place at 19:29 UTC Nov. 18. It is expected to carry with it some 2,500 kilograms of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 57 crew.
Northrup Grumman plans to send the NG-10 Cygnus resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station in November 2018. It is expected to launch atop an Antares 230 rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, and carry some 3,500 kilograms of crew supplies, experiments and hardware. Once in orbit, the freighter is expected to take several days to arrive at the ISS.
Progress MS-10 is expected to be the first Soyuz launch to send payload to the International Space Station since the Oct. 11, 2018, Soyuz MS-10 launch abort. The date of liftoff could shift pending the results of an ongoing investigation into the cause of the recent failure.
Japan's Kounotori 7 cargo spacecraft is set to depart from the International Space Station on Nov. 7, 2018, after about six weeks attached to the outpost's Harmony module. The craft delivered some 6,000 kilograms of equipment, supplies and experiments to the outpost, including new lithium-ion batteries.
Soyuz MS-10 is scheduled to launch two members of the Expedition 57 crew to the International Space Station: Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague. Liftoff at Baikonur Cosmodrome is expected at about 8:40 UTC Oct 11, 2018, with a docking to the Poisk module some four orbits later at 14:44 UTC.
Beginning Oct. 4, 2018; will transition to Expedition 58 on Dec. 13, 2018
Alexander Gerst, ESA
| Commander
Sergey Prokopyev, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Serena Aunon-Chancellor, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Launched: June 6, 2018, aboard Soyuz MS-09
Expected landing: Dec. 13, 2018
Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
| Flight Engineer
Nick Hague, NASA
| Flight Engineer
Launching: Oct. 11, 2018, aboard Soyuz MS-10
Expected landing: April 16, 2019
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