Expedition 1
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Expedition 1 was the first long-duration stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The three-person crew stayed aboard the station for 136 days, from November 2000 to March 2001. It was the beginning of an uninterrupted human presence on the station which continues as of 2024. Expedition 2, which also had three crew members, immediately followed Expedition 1.
The ISS during Expedition 1, seen during the approach of STS-97, the first Shuttle mission to visit the inhabited space station
L-R: Sergei K. Krikalev (Russia), William M. (Bill) Shepherd (United States), and Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Russia)ISS expeditionsExpedition 2 →
Expedition 1 promotional poster
Expedition 1's Soyuz-U launch vehicle being transported to its launch pad on 29 October 2000
International Space Station
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA, Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The ISS is the largest space station ever built. Its primary purpose is to perform microgravity and space environment experiments.
Oblique underside view in November 2021
Comet Lovejoy photographed by Expedition 30 commander Dan Burbank
Expedition 8 Commander and Science Officer Michael Foale conducts an inspection of the Microgravity Science Glovebox
Fisheye view of several labs and the Space Shuttle