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Crewed spaceflights during the 2010s are listed chronologically in the table.

Chronology of crewed spaceflights, 2010s
mission country crew dates notes
Canadarm2 transferring the Tranquility module from its stowage position in the payload bay of space shuttle Endeavour (STS-130) to the port side of the Unity node of the International Space Station, February 2010.
 STS-130 (Endeavour)/ International Space Station (ISS) U.S. George Zamka February 8–21, 2010 installed Tranquility node on ISS
Terry Virts
Kathryn Hire
Stephen Robinson
Robert Behnken
Nicholas Patrick
Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov after the opening of the hatch between the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft and the International Space Station, April 4, 2010.
 Soyuz TMA-18/ISS Russia Aleksandr Skvortsov April 4–September 25, 2010 Expeditions 23 and 24 crew
Mikhail Korniyenko
Tracy Caldwell-Dyson
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson, Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, and Yamazaki Naoko on the ISS
 STS-131 (Discovery)/ISS U.S. Alan Poindexter April 5–20, 2010 delivery of European Space Agency (ESA)-built logistics module Leonardo to ISS
James Dutton, Jr.
Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger
Stephanie Wilson
Richard Mastracchio
Yamazaki Naoko
Clayton Anderson
space shuttle Atlantis
 STS-132 (Atlantis)/ISS U.S. Kenneth Ham May 14–26, 2010 delivery of Russian-built Mini Research Module to ISS
Dominic Antonelli
Michael Good
Piers Sellers
Stephen Bowen
Garrett Reisman
Hurricane Earl from space
 Soyuz TMA-19/ISS Russia Fyodor Yurchikhin June 16–November 26, 2010 Expeditions 24 and 25 crew
Shannon Walker
Douglas Wheelock
Scott Kelly
 Soyuz TMA-01M/ISS Russia Aleksandr Kaleri October 8, 2010–March 16, 2011 Expeditions 25 and 26 crew
Oleg Skripochka
Scott Kelly
International Space Station
 Soyuz TMA-20/ISS Russia Dmitry Kondratyev December 15, 2010–May 24, 2011 Expeditions 26 and 27 crew
Paolo Nespoli
Catherine Coleman
space walk
 STS-133 (Discovery)/ISS U.S. Steven Lindsey February 24–March 9, 2011 delivery of robot Robonaut 2 and ESA-built Permanent Multipurpose Module to ISS; last flight of Discovery; first astronaut on consecutive shuttle flights (Bowen)
Eric Boe
Benjamin Drew
Michael Barratt
Stephen Bowen
Nicole Stott
Soyuz TMA-21
 Soyuz TMA-21/ISS Russia Aleksandr Samokutyayev April 5–September 16, 2011 Expeditions 27 and 28 crew
Andrei Borisenko
Ronald Garan
Endeavour
 STS-134 (Endeavour)/ISS U.S. Mark Kelly May 16–June 1, 2011 delivery of Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to ISS; last flight of Endeavour
Gregory Johnson
Michael Fincke
Gregory Chamitoff
Andrew Feustel
Roberto Vittori
Cupola on the International Space Station
 Soyuz TMA-02M/ISS Russia Sergey Volkov June 7–November 22, 2011 Expeditions 28 and 29 crew
Furukawa Satoshi
Michael Fossum
Atlantis
 STS-135 (Atlantis)/ISS U.S. Christopher Ferguson July 8–21, 2011 delivery of ESA-built Permanent Multipurpose Module to ISS; last flight of Atlantis; last space shuttle flight
Douglas Hurley
Sandra Magnus
Rex Walheim
Soyuz TMA-22/ISS Russia Anton Shkaplerov November 11, 2011–April 27, 2012 Expeditions 29 and 30 crew
Anatoly Ivanishin
Daniel Burbank
Soyuz TMA-03M/ISS Russia Oleg Kononenko December 21, 2011–July 1, 2012 Expeditions 30 and 31 crew
André Kuipers
Donald Pettit
Soyuz TMA-04M/ISS Russia Gennadi Padalka May 15–September 17, 2012 Expeditions 31 and 32 crew
Sergey Revin
Joseph Acaba
Shenzhou 9/ Tiangong 1 China Jing Haipeng June 16–29, 2012 First Chinese woman in space (Liu Yang); first manned Chinese space docking
Liu Wang
Liu Yang
Soyuz TMA-05M/ISS Russia Yury Malenchenko July 15–November 19, 2012 Expeditions 32 and 33 crew
Sunita Williams
Hoshide Akihiko
Soyuz TMA-06M/ISS Russia Oleg Novitsky October 23, 2012–March 16, 2013 Expeditions 33 and 34 crew
Yevgeny Tarelkin
Kevin Ford
Soyuz TMA-07M/ISS Russia Roman Romanenko December 19, 2012–May 14, 2013 Expeditions 34 and 35 crew
Chris Hadfield
Thomas Marshburn
Soyuz TMA-08M/ISS Russia Pavel Vinogradov March 28–September 11, 2013 Expeditions 35 and 36 crew
Aleksandr Misurkin
Christopher Cassidy
Soyuz TMA-09M/ISS Russia Fyodor Yurchikhin May 28–November 11, 2013 Expeditions 36 and 37 crew
Luca Parmitano
Karen Nyberg
Shenzhou 10/ Tiangong 1 China Nie Haisheng June 11–26, 2013 conducted medical experiments
Zhang Xiaoguan
Wang Yaping
Soyuz TMA-10M/ISS Russia Oleg Kotov September 25, 2013–March 11, 2014 Expeditions 37 and 38 crew
Sergey Ryazansky
Michael Hopkins
Soyuz TMA-11M/ISS Russia Mikhail Tyurin November 7, 2013–May 14, 2014 Expeditions 38 and 39 crew
Richard Mastracchio
Wakata Koichi
Soyuz TMA-12M/ISS Russia Aleksandr Skvortsov March 25–September 9, 2014 Expeditions 39 and 40 crew
Oleg Artemyev
Steven Swanson
Soyuz TMA-13M/ISS Russia Maksim Surayev May 28–November 10, 2014 Expeditions 40 and 41 crew
Gregory Wiseman
Alexander Gerst
Soyuz TMA-14M/ISS Russia Aleksandr Samokutyayev September 25, 2014–March 12, 2015 Expeditions 41 and 42 crew
Yelena Serova
Barry Wilmore
Soyuz TMA-15M/ISS Russia Anton Shkaplerov November 23, 2014–June 11, 2015 Expeditions 42 and 43 crew
Samantha Cristoforetti
Terry Virts
Soyuz TMA-16M/ISS Russia Gennadi Padalka March 27, 2015–March 2, 2016 (–September 12, 2015; Padalka) Expeditions 43–46 crew (Expeditions 43 and 44; Padalka); longest spaceflight by an American (Kelly, 340 days); most time spent in space (878 days over 5 flights; Padalka)
Mikhail Korniyenko
Scott Kelly
Soyuz TMA-17M/ISS Russia Oleg Kononenko July 22–December 11, 2015 Expeditions 44 and 45 crew
Yui Kimiya
Kjell Lindgren
Soyuz TMA-18M/ISS Russia Sergei Volkov September 2–12, 2015 (–March 2, 2016; Volkov) Expeditions 45 and 46 (Volkov) crew; first Danish astronaut (Mogensen)
Andreas Mogensen
Aydyn Aimbetov
Soyuz TMA-19M/ISS Russia Yuri Malenchenko December 12, 2015–June 18, 2016 Expeditions 46 and 47 crew
Timothy Kopra
Timothy Peake
Soyuz TMA-20M/ISS Russia Aleksei Ovchinin March 18–September 7, 2016 Expeditions 47 and 48 crew
Oleg Skripochka
Jeffrey Williams
Soyuz MS-01/ISS Russia Anatoli Ivanishin July 7–October 30, 2016 Expeditions 48 and 49 crew
Onishi Takuya
Kathleen Rubins
Shenzhou 11/Tiangong 2 China Jing Haipeng October 16–November 18, 2016 first crew on Tiangong 2 space station
Chen Dong
Soyuz MS-02/ISS Russia Sergei Ryzhikov October 19, 2016–April 10, 2017 Expeditions 49 and 50 crew
Andrei Borisenko
Robert Kimbrough
Soyuz MS-03/ISS Russia Oleg Novitsky November 17, 2016–June 2, 2017 (–September 3, 2017; Whitson) Expeditions 50, 51, and 52 (Whitson) crew; longest spaceflight by a woman (289 days, Whitson); most time in space by a woman (665 days over 3 flights, Whitson)
Thomas Pesquet
Peggy Whitson
Soyuz MS-04/ISS Russia Fyodor Yuchikhin April 20–September 3, 2017 Expeditions 51 and 52 crew
Jack Fischer
Soyuz MS-05/ISS Russia Sergei Ryazansky July 28–December 14, 2017 Expeditions 52 and 53 crew
Randolph Bresnik
Paolo Nespoli
Soyuz MS-06/ISS Russia Aleksandr Misurkin September 12, 2017–February 28, 2018 Expeditions 53 and 54 crew
Mark Vande Hei
Joseph Acaba
Soyuz MS-07/ISS Russia Anton Shkaplerov December 17, 2017–June 3, 2018 Expeditions 54 and 55 crew
Scott Tingle
Kanai Norishige
Soyuz MS-08/ISS Russia Oleg Artemyev March 21–October 4, 2018 Expeditions 55 and 56 crew
Andrew Feustel
Richard Arnold
Soyuz MS-09/ISS Russia Sergei Prokopyev June 6–December 20, 2018 Expeditions 56 and 57 crew
Alexander Gerst
Serena Auñón-Chancellor
Soyuz MS-10 Russia Aleksei Ovchinin October 11, 2018 Second stage broke up, forcing emergency landing
Nick Hague
Soyuz MS-11/ISS Russia Oleg Kononenko December 3, 2018–June 25, 2019 Expeditions 57, 58, and 59 crew
David Saint-Jacques
Anne McClain
Soyuz MS-12/ISS Russia Aleksei Ovchinin March 14, 2019– Expeditions 59, 60, and 61 (Koch) crew
Nick Hague
Christina Koch
Soyuz MS-13/ISS Russia Aleksandr Skvortsov July 20, 2019– Expeditions 60 and 61 crew
Luca Parmitano
Andrew Morgan

Crewed spaceflights, 2020–

Crewed spaceflights during the 2020s are listed chronologically in the table.

mission country crew date notes
Soyuz MS-16/International Space Station (ISS) Russia Anatoli Ivanishin April 9–October 22, 2020 Expeditions 62 and 63 crew
Ivan Vagner
Christopher Cassidy
Demo-2/ISS U.S. Douglas Hurley May 30–August 2, 2020 first crewed flight of Dragon spacecraft; first U.S. launch since 2011
Robert Behnken
Soyuz MS-17/ISS Russia Sergei Ryzhikov October 14, 2020–April 17, 2021 Expeditions 63 and 64 crew
Sergei Kud-Sverchkov
Kathleen Rubins
Crew-1/ISS U.S. Michael Hopkins November 15, 2020–May 2, 2021 Expeditions 64 and 65 crew; first operational flight of Dragon spacecraft
Victor Glover
Noguchi Soichi
Shannon Walker
Soyuz MS-18/ISS Russia Oleg Novitsky April 9, 2021–October 17, 2021 (March 30, 2022 [Dubrov, Vande Hei]) Expeditions 64, 65, and 66 (Dubrov, Vande Hei) crew; longest spaceflight by an American (Vande Hei, 355 days)
Pyotr Dubrov
Mark Vande Hei
Crew-2/ISS U.S. Robert Kimbrough April 23–November 9, 2021 Expeditions 65 and 66 crew
Katherine McArthur
Hoshide Akihiko
Thomas Pesquet
Shenzhou 12/Tiangong China Nie Haisheng June 17–September 17, 2021 first crew of Tiangong space station
Liu Boming
Tang Hongbo
Inspiration4 U.S. Jared Isaacman September 16–18, 2021 first spaceflight with only private citizens
Sian Proctor
Hayley Arceneaux
Christopher Sembroski
Soyuz MS-19/ISS Russia Anton Shkaplerov October 5, 2021–March 30, 2022 (October 17, 2021 [Shipenko, Peresild]) Expeditions 65 and 66 crew (Shkaplerov); director Shipenko and actress Peresild shot scenes for a film on the ISS
Klim Shipenko
Yulia Peresild
Shenzhou 13/Tiangong China Zhai Zhigang October 15, 2021–April 16, 2022 longest Chinese spaceflight (182 days)
Wang Yaping
Ye Guangfu
The four commercial crew astronauts representing the SpaceX Crew-3 mission are pictured in their Dragon spacesuits for a fit check aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module. Clockwise from bottom are NASA astronaut Raja Chari; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer; and NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron. Crew-3/ISS U.S. Raja Chari November 11, 2021–May 5, 2022 Expeditions 66 and 67 crew
Thomas Marshburn
Matthias Maurer
Kayla Barron
Soyuz MS-20/ISS Russia Aleksandr Misurkin December 8–20, 2021 space tourism flight (Maezawa, Hirano)
Maezawa Yusaku
Hirano Yozo
Soyuz MS-21/ISS Russia Oleg Artemyev March 18, 2022– Expeditions 66 and 67 crew
Denis Matveyev
Sergei Korsakov
Ax-1/ISS U.S. Michael Lopez-Alegria April 8–25, 2022 first private flight to the ISS
Larry Connor
Mark Pathy
Eytan Stibbe
Crew-4/ISS U.S. Kjell Lindgren April 27, 2022– Expedition 67 crew
Robert Hines
Samantha Cristoforetti
Jessica Watkins
Shenzhou 14/Tiangong China Chen Dong June 5, 2022– planned addition of two modules to Tiangong
Liu Yang
Cai Xuzhe