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Crewed spaceflights, 2000–09
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Crewed spaceflights during the 2000s are listed chronologically in the table.
| mission | country | crew | dates | notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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STS-99 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Kevin Kregel | Feb. 11–22, 2000 | carried out Shuttle Radar Tomography Mission |
| Dominic Gorie | |||||
| Gerhard Thiele | |||||
| Janet Kavandi | |||||
| Janice Voss | |||||
| Mohri Mamoru | |||||
| Soyuz TM-30/Mir | Russia | Sergey Zalyotin | April 4–June 16, 2000 | last occupants of Mir | |
| Aleksandr Kaleri | |||||
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STS-101 (Atlantis)/International Space Station (ISS) | U.S. | James Halsell | May 19–29, 2000 | ISS outfitting and repair |
| Scott Horowitz | |||||
| Mary Weber | |||||
| Jeffrey Williams | |||||
| James Voss | |||||
| Susan Helms | |||||
| Yuri Usachyov | |||||
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STS-106 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Terrence Wilcutt | Sept. 8–20, 2000 | completed docking of Russian-built Zvezda module to ISS |
| Scott Altman | |||||
| Edward Lu | |||||
| Richard Mastracchio | |||||
| Daniel Burbank | |||||
| Yury Malenchenko | |||||
| Boris Morukov | |||||
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STS-92 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Brian Duffy | Oct. 11–24, 2000 | delivered Z1 truss to ISS |
| Pamela Melroy | |||||
| Leroy Chiao | |||||
| William McArthur | |||||
| Peter Wisoff | |||||
| Michael Lopez-Alegria | |||||
| Wakata Koichi | |||||
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Soyuz TM-31/ISS | Russia | Yuri Gidzenko | Oct. 31, 2000–March 21, 2001 | first ISS crew (Expedition 1) |
| William Shepherd | |||||
| Sergey Krikalyov | |||||
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STS-97 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | Brent Jett | Nov. 30–Dec. 11, 2000 | mounted solar arrays on Z1 truss |
| Michael Bloomfield | |||||
| Joseph Tanner | |||||
| Marc Garneau | |||||
| Carlos Noriega | |||||
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STS-98 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Kenneth Cockrell | Feb. 7–20, 2001 | addition of U.S.-built Destiny laboratory module to ISS |
| Mark Polansky | |||||
| Robert Curbeam | |||||
| Marsha Ivins | |||||
| Thomas Jones | |||||
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STS-102 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | James Wetherbee | March 8–21, 2001 (Aug. 22 [Voss, Helms, Usachyov]) | delivery of Expedition 2 crew (Usachyov, Voss, Helms) and European Space Agency (ESA)-built logistics module Leonardo to ISS |
| James Kelly | |||||
| Andrew Thomas | |||||
| James Voss | |||||
| Susan Helms | |||||
| Yury Usachyov | |||||
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STS-100 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | Kent Rominger | April 19–May 1, 2001 | added Canadian robotic arm Canadarm2 to ISS |
| Jeffrey Ashby | |||||
| Chris Hadfield | |||||
| John Phillips | |||||
| Scott Parazynski | |||||
| Umberto Guidoni | |||||
| Yury Lonchakov | |||||
| Soyuz TM-32/ISS | Russia | Talgat Musabayev | April 28–May 6, 2001 | first space tourist (Tito) | |
| Yury Baturin | |||||
| Dennis Tito | |||||
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STS-104 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Steven Lindsey | July 12–24, 2001 | addition of U.S.-built Quest airlock to ISS |
| Charles Hobaugh | |||||
| Michael Gernhardt | |||||
| Janet Kavandi | |||||
| James Reilly | |||||
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STS-105 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Scott Horowitz | Aug. 10–22, 2001 (Dec. 17 [Culbertson, Tyurin, Dezhurov]) | delivery of Expedition 3 crew (Culbertson, Tyurin, Dezhurov) and ESA-built logistics module Leonardo to ISS |
| Frederick Sturckow | |||||
| Patrick Forrester | |||||
| Thomas Barry | |||||
| Frank Culbertson | |||||
| Mikhail Tyurin | |||||
| Vladimir Dezhurov | |||||
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Soyuz TM-33/ISS | Russia | Viktor Afanasiyev | Oct. 21–31, 2001 | exchange of Soyuz return craft for ISS crew |
| Claudie Haigneré | |||||
| Konstantin Kozeyev | |||||
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STS-108 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | Dominic Gorie | Dec. 5–17, 2001 (June 15, 2002 [Onufriyenko, Bursch, Walz]) | delivery of Expedition 4 crew (Onufriyenko, Bursch, Walz) and ESA-built logistics module Raffaello to ISS |
| Mark Kelly | |||||
| Linda Godwin | |||||
| Daniel Tani | |||||
| Yury Onufriyenko | |||||
| Daniel Bursch | |||||
| Carl Walz | |||||
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STS-109 (Columbia) | U.S. | Scott Altman | March 1–12, 2002 | Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission |
| Duane Carey | |||||
| John Grunsfeld | |||||
| Nancy Currie | |||||
| Richard Linnehan | |||||
| James Newman | |||||
| Michael Massimino | |||||
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STS-110 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Michael Bloomfield | April 8–19, 2002 | delivered S0 truss to ISS |
| Stephen Frick | |||||
| Rex Walheim | |||||
| Ellen Ochoa | |||||
| Lee Morin | |||||
| Jerry Ross | |||||
| Steven Smith | |||||
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Soyuz TM-34/ISS | Russia | Yury Gidzenko | April 25–May 5, 2002 | first South African in space (Shuttleworth) |
| Roberto Vittori | |||||
| Mark Shuttleworth | |||||
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STS-111 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | Kenneth Cockrell | June 5–19, 2002 (Dec. 7 [Whitson, Korzun, Treschyov]) | delivered Expedition 5 crew (Whitson, Korzun, Treschyov) and equipment to ISS |
| Paul Lockhart | |||||
| Philippe Perrin | |||||
| Franklin Chang-Díaz | |||||
| Peggy Whitson | |||||
| Valery Korzun | |||||
| Sergey Treschyov | |||||
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STS-112 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Jeffrey Ashby | Oct. 7–18, 2002 | delivered S1 truss to ISS |
| Pamela Melroy | |||||
| David Wolf | |||||
| Sandra Magnus | |||||
| Piers Sellers | |||||
| Fyodor Yurchikhin | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-1/ISS | Russia | Sergei Zalyotin | Oct. 30–Nov. 10, 2002 | exchange of Soyuz return craft for ISS crew |
| Frank De Winne | |||||
| Yury Lonchakov | |||||
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STS-113 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | James Wetherbee | Nov. 23–Dec. 7, 2002 (May 4, 2003 [Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit]) | delivered Expedition 6 crew (Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit) and P1 truss to ISS |
| Paul Lockhart | |||||
| Michael Lopez-Alegria | |||||
| John Herrington | |||||
| Kenneth Bowersox | |||||
| Nikolay Budarin | |||||
| Donald Pettit | |||||
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STS-107 (Columbia) | U.S. | Rick Husband | Jan. 16–Feb. 1, 2003 | first Israeli astronaut (Ramon); crew killed when vehicle broke up during reentry |
| William McCool | |||||
| David Brown | |||||
| Kalpana Chawla | |||||
| Michael Anderson | |||||
| Laurel Clark | |||||
| Ilan Ramon | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-2/ISS | Russia | Yury Malchenko | April 26–Oct. 28, 2003 | Expedition 7 crew to ISS |
| Edward Lu | |||||
| Shenzhou 5 | China | Yang Liwei | Oct. 15, 2003 | first taikonaut in space (Yang) | |
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Soyuz TMA-3/ISS | Russia | Aleksandr Kaleri | Oct. 18, 2003–April 30, 2004 (Oct. 28, 2003 [Duque]) | Expedition 8 crew (Kaleri, Foale) to ISS |
| Pedro Duque | |||||
| Michael Foale | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-4/ISS | Russia | Gennadi Padalka | April 19–Oct. 24, 2004 (April 30 [Kuipers]) | Expedition 9 crew (Padalka, Fincke) to ISS |
| André Kuipers | |||||
| Michael Fincke | |||||
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SpaceShipOne 15P | U.S. | Michael Melvill | June 21, 2004 | first private spaceflight |
| SpaceShipOne 16P | U.S. | Michael Melvill | Sept. 29, 2004 | first Ansari X Prize competition flight | |
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SpaceShipOne 17P | U.S. | William Binnie | Oct. 4, 2004 | Ansari X Prize-winning spaceflight |
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Soyuz TMA-5/ISS | Russia | Salizhan Sharipov | Oct. 14, 2004–April 24, 2005 (Oct. 24, 2004 [Shargin]) | Expedition 10 crew (Sharipov, Chiao) to ISS |
| Leroy Chiao | |||||
| Yury Shargin | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-6/ISS | Russia | Sergey Krikalyov | April 15–Oct. 11, 2005 (Oct. 24 [Vittori]) | Expedition 11 crew (Krikalyov, Phillips) to ISS |
| Roberto Vittori | |||||
| John Phillips | |||||
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STS-114 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Eileen Collins | July 26–Aug. 9, 2005 | first space shuttle flight after Columbia disaster |
| James Kelly | |||||
| Noguchi Soichi | |||||
| Stephen Robinson | |||||
| Andrew Thomas | |||||
| Wendy Lawrence | |||||
| Charles Camarda | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-7/ISS | Russia | Valery Tokarev | Oct. 1, 2005–April 8, 2006 (Oct. 11, 2005 [Olsen]) | Expedition 12 crew (McArthur, Tokarev) to ISS |
| William McArthur | |||||
| Gregory Olsen | |||||
| Shenzhou 6 | China | Fei Junlong | Oct. 12–16, 2005 | first two-person Chinese spaceflight | |
| Nie Haisheng | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-8/ISS | Russia | Pavel Vinogradov | March 30–Sept. 29, 2006 (April 8 [Pontes]) | Expedition 13 crew (Vinogradov, Williams) to ISS; first Brazilian astronaut (Pontes) |
| Jeffrey Williams | |||||
| Marcos Pontes | |||||
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STS-121 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Steven Lindsey | July 4–17, 2006 (Dec. 22 [Reiter]) | increased ISS crew from two to three (Reiter) |
| Mark Kelly | |||||
| Michael Fossum | |||||
| Lisa Nowak | |||||
| Piers Sellers | |||||
| Stephanie Wilson | |||||
| Thomas Reiter | |||||
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STS-115 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Brent Jett | Sept. 9–21, 2006 | attached solar array to ISS |
| Christopher Ferguson | |||||
| Joseph Tanner | |||||
| Daniel Burbank | |||||
| Heidimarie Stefanyshyn-Piper | |||||
| Steven MacLean | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-9/ISS | Russia | Mikhail Tyurin | Sept. 18, 2006–April 21, 2007 (Sept. 29, 2006 [Ansari]) | Expedition 14 crew (Lopez-Alegria, Tyurin) to ISS |
| Michael Lopez-Alegria | |||||
| Anousheh Ansari | |||||
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STS-116 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Mark Polansky | Dec. 9–22, 2006 (June 22, 2007 [Williams]) | connected new solar array to ISS electric system; first Swedish astronaut (Fuglesang); longest spaceflight by a woman (Williams; 194 days 18 hours) |
| William Oefelein | |||||
| Nicholas Patrick | |||||
| Robert Curbeam | |||||
| Christer Fuglesang | |||||
| Joan Higginbotham | |||||
| Sunita Williams | |||||
| Soyuz TMA-10/ISS | Russia | Oleg Kotov | April 7–Oct. 21, 2007 (April 21 [Simonyi]) | Expedition 15 crew (Kotov, Yurchikhin) to ISS | |
| Fyodor Yurchikhin | |||||
| Charles Simonyi | |||||
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STS-117 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Frederick Sturckow | June 8–22, 2007 (Nov. 7 [Anderson]) | delivered S3/S4 truss to ISS |
| Lee Archambault | |||||
| Patrick Forrester | |||||
| Steven Swanson | |||||
| John Olivas | |||||
| James Reilly | |||||
| Clayton Anderson | |||||
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STS-118 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | Scott Kelly | Aug. 8–21, 2007 | delivered S5 truss |
| Charles Hobaugh | |||||
| Tracy Caldwell | |||||
| Richard Mastracchio | |||||
| Dafydd Williams | |||||
| Barbara Morgan | |||||
| Benjamin Drew | |||||
| Soyuz TMA-11/ISS | Russia | Yury Malenchenko | Oct. 10, 2007–April 19, 2008 (Oct. 21, 2007 [Sheikh]) | Expedition 16 crew (Whitson, Malenchenko) to ISS; first Malaysian astronaut (Sheikh) | |
| Peggy Whitson | |||||
| Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor | |||||
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STS-120 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Pamela Melroy | Oct. 23–Nov. 7, 2007 (Feb. 20, 2008 [Tani]) | added Harmony node to ISS |
| George Zamka | |||||
| Scott Parazynski | |||||
| Stephanie Wilson | |||||
| Douglas Wheelock | |||||
| Paolo Nespoli | |||||
| Daniel Tani | |||||
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STS-122 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Stephen Frick | Feb. 7–20, 2008 (March 26 [Eyharts]) | added ESA Columbus laboratory module to ISS |
| Alan Poindexter | |||||
| Stanley Love | |||||
| Leland Melvin | |||||
| Rex Walheim | |||||
| Hans Schlegel | |||||
| Léopold Eyharts | |||||
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STS-123 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | Dominic Gorie | March 11–26, 2008 (June 14 [Reisman]) | added Canadian robot Dextre to ISS |
| Gregory Johnson | |||||
| Robert Behnkne | |||||
| Michael Foreman | |||||
| Doi Takao | |||||
| Richard Linnehan | |||||
| Garrett Reisman | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-12/ISS | Russia | Sergey Volkov | April 8–Oct. 24, 2008 (April 19 [Yi]) | Expedition 17 crew (Volkov, Kononenko) to ISS; first second-generation cosmonaut (Volkov); first Korean astronaut (Yi) |
| Oleg Kononenko | |||||
| Yi Soyeon | |||||
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STS-124 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Mark Kelly | May 31–June 14, 2008 (Nov. 30 [Chamitoff]) | added Japanese Kibo laboratory module to ISS |
| Kenneth Ham | |||||
| Karen Nyberg | |||||
| Ronald Garan | |||||
| Michael Fossum | |||||
| Hoshide Akihiko | |||||
| Gregory Chamitoff | |||||
| Shenzhou 7 | China | Zhai Zigang | Sept. 25–28, 2008 | first Chinese space walk (Zhai) | |
| Liu Boming | |||||
| Jing Haipeng | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-13/ISS | Russia | Yury Lonchakov | Oct. 12, 2008–April 8, 2009 (Oct. 24, 2008 [Garriott]) | Expedition 18 crew (Fincke, Lonchakov) to ISS; first second-generation American astronaut (Garriott) |
| Michael Fincke | |||||
| Richard Garriott | |||||
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STS-126 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | Christopher Ferguson | Nov. 14–30, 2008 (March 28, 2009 [Magnus]) | delivered equipment that would allow a six-person crew on the ISS |
| Eric Boe | |||||
| Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper | |||||
| Donald Pettit | |||||
| Stephen Bowen | |||||
| Robert Kimbrough | |||||
| Sandra Magnus | |||||
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STS-119 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Lee Archambault | March 15–28, 2009 (July 31 [Wakata]) | added final solar array to ISS |
| Dominic Antonelli | |||||
| John Phillips | |||||
| Steven Swanson | |||||
| Joseph Acaba | |||||
| Richard Arnold | |||||
| Wakata Koichi | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-14/ISS | Russia | Gennadi Padalka | March 26–Oct. 11, 2009 (April 8 [Simonyi]) | Expeditions 19 and 20 crew (Padalka, Barratt); first repeat space tourist (Simonyi) |
| Michael Barratt | |||||
| Charles Simonyi | |||||
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STS-125 (Atlantis) | U.S. | Scott Altman | May 11–24, 2009 | final servicing mission to Hubble Space Telescope |
| Gregory Johnson | |||||
| Michael Good | |||||
| Katherine McArthur | |||||
| John Grunsfeld | |||||
| Michael Massimino | |||||
| Andrew Feustel | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-15/ISS | Russia | Roman Romanenko | May 27–Dec. 1, 2009 | Expeditions 20 and 21 crew; brought ISS to full crew of six |
| Frank de Winne | |||||
| Robert Thirsk | |||||
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STS-127 (Endeavour)/ISS | U.S. | Mark Polansky | July 15–31, 2009 (Sept. 11 [Kopra]) | added facility exposed to space to the Japanese Kibo module |
| Douglas Hurley | |||||
| David Wolf | |||||
| Julie Payette | |||||
| Christopher Cassidy | |||||
| Thomas Marshburn | |||||
| Timothy Kopra | |||||
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STS-128 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Frederick Sturckow | Aug. 29–Sept. 11, 2009 (Nov. 27 [Stott]) | delivery of ESA-built logistics module Leonardo to ISS |
| Kevin Ford | |||||
| Patrick Forrester | |||||
| John Olivas | |||||
| José Hernández | |||||
| Christer Fuglesang | |||||
| Nicole Stott | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-16/ISS | Russia | Maksim Suryaev | Sept. 29, 2009–March 18, 2010 (Oct. 11, 2009 [Laliberté]) | Expeditions 21 and 22 crew (Suryaev, Williams) |
| Jeffrey Williams | |||||
| Guy Laliberté | |||||
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STS-129 (Atlantis)/ISS | U.S. | Charles Hobaugh | Nov. 16–27, 2009 | delivery of spare parts to ISS |
| Barry Wilmore | |||||
| Michael Foreman | |||||
| Robert Satcher | |||||
| Randolph Bresnik | |||||
| Leland Melvin | |||||
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Soyuz TMA-17/ISS | Russia | Oleg Kotov | Dec. 21, 2009–June 2, 2010 | Expeditions 22 and 23 crew |
| Noguchi Soichi | |||||
| Timothy Creamer |