Timeline of the ISS missions

A complete chronology of ISS missions

Spacecraft	Launch	Landing/ Deorbit	Mission	Mission	Crew**
1998
Zarya FGB	1998 Nov. 20	In progress	1A	Control Module	-
STS-88	1998 Dec. 4	1998 Dec. 15	2A	Unity (Node 1) delivery	Robert D. Cabana, Frederick W. Sturckow, Jerry Ross, Nancy J. Currie, James H. Newman, Sergei Krikalev
1999
STS-96	1999 May 27	1999 June 6	2A.1	Strela/logistics delivery	Kent V. Rominger, Rick D. Husband, Tamara E. Jernigan, Ellen Ochoa, Daniel T. Barry, Julie Payette, Valeri Tokarev
2000
STS-101	2000 May 19	2000 May 29	2A.2a	Logistics delivery	James D.. Halsell, Scott J. Horowits, Mary Ellen Weber, Jeffrey N. Williams, James S. Voss, Susan Helms, Yuri Usachev
Zvezda	2000 July 12	In progress	1R	Service Module	-
Progress M1-3	2000 Aug. 6	2000 Nov. 1	1P	Cargo supply	-
STS-106	2000 Sept. 8	2000 Sept. 19	2A.2b	Logistics delivery	Terrence W. Wilcutt, Scott D. Altman, Daniel C. Burbank, Edward Tsang Lu, Richard Mastracchio, Yuri Malenchenko, Boris Morukov
STS-92	2000 Oct. 11	2000 Oct. 24	3A	Z-1 truss, PMA-3 docking port delivery	Brian K. Duffy, Pamela A. Melroy, Koichi Wakata, Leroy Chiao, Peter J.K. Wisoff, Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, William S. McArthur
Permanent presence of the crew of three
Soyuz TM-31	2000. Oct. 31	2001 May 6	2R	1st resident crew delivery	Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, Sergei Krikalev (up) Talgat Musabaev, Yuri Baturin, Dennis Tito (down) **
Progress M1-4	2000 Nov. 16	2001 Feb. 8	2P	Cargo supply	-
Endeavour STS-97	2000 Dec. 1	2000 Dec. 11	4A	Delivery of the P6 section with solar arrays	Brendt Jett, Michael J. Bloomfield, Joseph R. Tanner, Marc Garneau, Carlos I. Noriega
2001
Atlantis STS-98	2001 Feb. 7	2001 Feb. 20	5A	Destiny (US lab) delivery	Kenneth D. Cockrell, Mark L. Polansky, Robert L. Curbeam, Marsha S. Ivins, Thomas D. Jones
Progress M-44	2001 Feb. 26	2001 April 13	3P	Cargo supply	-
Discovery STS-102	2001 March 8	2001 March 21	5A.1	1st and 2nd resident crew exchange, Leonardo cargo module delivery and return	James Wetherbee, James Kelly, Andrew Thomas, Paul Richards; Yuri Usachev, James Voss, Susan Helms (ISS-2: up), Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, Sergei Krikalev (ISS-1: down)**
Atlantis STS-100	2001 April 19	2001 May 1	6A	Remote manipulator delivery, Raffaello cargo module delivery and return	Kent V. Rominger, Jeffrey S. Ashby, Chris A. Hadfield, John L. Phillips, Scott E. Parazynski, Umberto Guidoni, Yuri V. Lonchakov
Soyuz TM-32	2001 April 28	2001 Oct. 31	2S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement	Talgat Musabaev, Yuri Baturin, Dennis Tito (up)** (This crew returned onboard Soyuz TM-31)
Progress M1-6	2001 May 21	2001 Aug. 22	4P	Cargo supply	-
Atlantis STS-104	2001 July 12	2001 July 24	7A	US airlock delivery and installation (four tanks on two Spacelab pallets)	Steven W. Lindsey, Charles O. Hobaugh, Michael L. Gernhardt, Janet L. Kavandi, James F. Reilly
Discovery STS-105	2001 Aug. 10	2001 Aug. 21	7A.1	2nd and 3rd resident crew exchange; Cargo module delivery and return	Scott "Doc" Horowitz, Frederick Sturckow, Patrick Forrester, Daniel Barry; Frank Culbertson, Vladimir Dezhurov, Mikhail Tyurin (ISS-3: up); Yuri Usachev, James Voss, Susan Helms (ISS-2: down)
Progress M-45	2001 Aug. 21	2001 Nov. 22	5P	Cargo supply	-
Progress / DC-1	2001 Sept. 15	In progress	3R	Docking Compartment 1 delivery	-
Soyuz TM-33	2001 Oct. 21	2002 May 5	3S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement	Viktor Afanasiev, Konstantin Kazeev, Claudie Haigneré (ESA) (This crew returned onboard Soyuz TM-32)
Progress M1-7	2001 Nov. 26	2002 March 20	6P	Cargo supply	-
Endeavour STS-108	2001 Dec. 5	2001 Dec. 17	UF-1	3rd and 4th resident crew exchange; The Rafaello cargo module delivery and return; Starshine-2 deployment	Dom Gorie, Mark Kelly, Linda Godwin, Daniel Tani; Yuri Onufrienko, Daniel Bursch, Carl Walz (ISS-4: up); Frank Culbertson, Vladimir Dezhurov, Mikhail Tyurin (ISS-3: down)
2002
Progress M1-8	2002 March 21	2002 June 25	7P	Cargo supply	-
Atlantis STS-110	2002 April 8	2002 April 19	8A	S0 truss delivery	Michael J. Bloomfield, Stephen N. Frick, Rex J. Walheim. Ellen Ochoa, Lee M. E. Morin, Jerry L. Ross, Steven L. Smith
Soyuz TM-34	2002 April 25	2002 Nov. 10	4S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement	Yuri Gidzenko, Roberto Vittori, Mark Shuttleworth. (This crew returned onboard Soyuz TM-33)
Endeavour STS-111	2002 June 5	2002 June 19	UF-2	4th and 5th resident crew exchange; Leonardo Multipurpose Logistics Module, Mobile Base System delivery	Ken Cockrell, Paul Lockhart, Franklin Chang-Díaz, Philippe Perrin; Yuri Onufrienko, Daniel Bursch, Carl Walz (ISS-4: down); Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson, Sergei Treshev (ISS-5: up)
Progress M-46	2002 June 26	2002 Oct. 14	8P	Cargo supply	-
Progress M1-9	2002 Sept. 25	2003 Feb. 1	9P	Cargo supply	-
Atlantis STS-112	2002 Oct. 7	2002 Oct. 18	9A	S1 truss delivery	Jeffrey S. Ashby, Pamela A. Melroy, David A. Wolf, Piers J. Sellers, Sandra H. Magnus, Fyodor N. Yurchikhin.
Soyuz TMA-1	2002 Oct. 30	2003 May 4	5S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-6 return	Sergei Zalyotin, Yuri Lonchakov, Frank De Winne (Belgium/ESA: up). (This crew returned onboard Soyuz TM-34) Ken Bowersox, Don Petit, Nikolai Budarin (ISS-6: down)
Endeavour STS-113	2002 Nov. 23	2002 Dec. 7	11A	P1 truss, Expedition 6 and 5 exchange	Jim Wetherbee, Paul Lockhart, Michael Lopez-Alegria, John Herrington, Ken Bowersox, Don Petit, Nikolai Budarin.(ISS-6: up); Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson, Sergei Treshev (ISS-5: down)
2003
Columbia accident grounds the Shuttle fleet, forces the reduction of the ISS crew to two
Progress M-47	2003 Feb. 2	2003 Aug. 28	10P	Cargo supply	-
Soyuz TMA-2	2003 April 26	2003 Oct. 28	6S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-7 crew delivery	Yuri Malenchenko, Ed Lu (ISS-7)
Progress M1-10 No. 259	2003 June 8	2003 Oct. 3	11P	Cargo supply	-
Progress M-48	2003 Aug. 29	2004 Jan. 28	12P	Cargo supply	-
Soyuz TMA-3	2003 Oct. 18	2004 April 30	7S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-8 crew delivery	Alexander Kaleri, Michael Foale (ISS-8), Pedro Duque (ESA/Spain) (Duque returned onboard Soyuz TMA-2)
2004
Progress M1-11 No. 260	2004 Jan. 29	2004 June 3	13P	Cargo supply	-
Soyuz TMA-4	2004 April 19	2004 Oct. 24	8S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-9 crew delivery	Gennady Padalka, Michael Fincke (ISS-9), André Kuipers (ESA) (Kuipers returned onboard Soyuz TMA-3)
Progress M-49 No. 249	2004 May 25	2004 July 30	14P	Cargo supply	-
Progress M-50 No. 350	2004 Aug. 11	2004 Dec. 23	15P	Cargo supply	-
Soyuz TMA-5	2004 Oct. 14	2005 April 24	9S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-10 crew delivery	Leroy Chiao, Salizhan Sharipov (ISS-10), Yuri Shargin (Shargin returned onboard Soyuz TMA-4)
Progress M-51 No. 351	2004 Dec. 24	2005 March 9	16P	Cargo supply	-
2005
Progress M-52 No. 352	2005 Feb. 28	2005 June 16	17P	Cargo supply	-
Soyuz TMA-6	2005 April 15	2005 Oct. 11	10S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-11 crew delivery	Sergei Krikalev, John Phillips (ISS-11), Roberto Vittori (Italy) (Vittori returned onboard Soyuz TMA-5) (Gregory Olsen: down only)
Progress M-53 No. 353	2005 June 17	2005 Sept. 7	18P	Cargo supply	-
Discovery STS-114	2005 July 26	2005 Aug. 9	LF1	Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module delivery and return, cargo supply	Eileen Collins, James Kelly, Charles Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Soichi Noguchi (Japan), Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas
Progress M-54 No. 354	2005 Sept. 8	2006 March 3	19P	Cargo supply	-
Soyuz TMA-7	2005 Oct. 1	2006 April 9	11S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-12 crew delivery	William McArthur, Valery Tokarev, Gregory Olsen (up only) (Gregory Olsen returned onboard Soyuz TMA-6) Marcos Pontes (Brazil) down only
Progress M-55 No. 355	2005 Dec. 24	2006 June 19	20P	Cargo supply	-
2006
Soyuz TMA-8	2006 March 30	2006 Sept. 29	12S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-13 crew delivery	Pavel Vinogradov, Jeffrey Williams, Marcos Pontes (Brazil) (up only) (Pontes returned onboard Soyuz TMA-7); Anousheh Ansari (down only)
Progress M-56 No. 356	2006 April 24	2006 Sept. 19	21P	Cargo supply	-
Progress M-57 No. 357	2006 June 24	2007 Jan. 17	22P	Cargo supply	-
Discovery STS-121	2006 July 4	2006 July 17	ULF1.1	Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM); Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC); Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier (LMC); ESA astronaut delivery	Steven Lindsey, Mark Kelly, Lisa Nowak, Michael Fossum, Stephanie Wilson, Piers Sellers, Thomas Reiter (up only)(ESA).
Atlantis STS-115	2006 Sept. 9	2006 Sept. 21	12A	Second port truss segment (ITS P3/P4) Second set of solar arrays and batteries	Brent W. Jett Jr., Christopher J. Ferguson, Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. Tanner, Daniel C. Burbank and Steven G. MacLean, CSA.
Soyuz TMA-9	2006 Sept. 18	2007 April 21	13S	Soyuz rescue vehicle replacement; ISS-14 crew delivery	Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Mikhail Tyurin, Anousheh Ansari (up only) (returned onboard Soyuz TMA-8) Charles Simonyi (down only)
Progress M-58 No. 358	2006 Oct. 23	2007 March 28	23P	Cargo supply	-
Discovery STS-116	2006 Dec. 9	2006 Dec. 22	12A.1	Third port truss segment (ITS P5) delivery; SPACEHAB single cargo module and Integrated Cargo Carrier (ICC) remain in the cargo bay	Mark Polansky, William Oefelein, Robert Curbeam, Joan Higginbotham, Nicholas Patrick, Christer Fuglesang (ESA); Sunita Williams (up only; returns onboard STS-117); Thomas Reiter (ESA) (down only);
2007
Progress M-59 No. 359	2007 Jan. 18	2007 Aug. 1	24P	Cargo supply	-
Soyuz TMA-10	2007 April 7	2007 Oct. 21	14S	Expedition 15 delivery	Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov, Charles Simonyi (up only; returned onboard Soyuz TMA-9); Muszaphar Shukor (Malaysia); (down only, launched onboard Soyuz TMA-11)
Progress M-60 No. 360	2007 May 12	2007 Sept. 25	25P	Cargo supply	-
Atlantis STS-117	2007 June 8	2007 June 22	13A	Second starboard truss segment (ITS S3/S4) with Photovoltaic Radiator (PVR) Third set of solar arrays and batteries	Frederick W. Sturckow, Lee Joseph Archambault, James F. Reilly II, Steven R. Swanson, Patrick G. Forrester, John D. Olivas, Clayton C. Anderson (up only), Sunita L. Williams (down only)
Progress M-61 No. 361	2007 Aug. 2	2008 Jan. 22	26P	Cargo supply	-
Endeavour STS-118	2007 Aug. 8	2007 Aug. 21	13A.1	SPACEHAB Single Cargo Module Third starboard truss segment (ITS S5) External Stowage Platform 3 (ESP3)	Scott Kelly, Charlie Hobaugh, Tracy Caldwell, Rick Mastracchio, Dave Williams, Barbara Morgan, Al Drew
Soyuz TMA-11	2007 Oct. 10	2008 April 19	15S	Expedition 16 delivery	Peggy A. Whitson, Yuri Malenchenko, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (Malaysia) (up only; returns onboard Soyuz TMA-10); So-yeon Yi, (South Korea) (down only; launched onboard Soyuz TMA-12)
Discovery STS-120	2007 Oct. 23	2007 Nov. 7	10A	Node 2 (Harmony) Sidewall - Power and Data Grapple Fixture (PDGF)	Pamela A. Melroy, George D. Zamka; Douglas H. Wheelock, Scott E. Parazynski, Stephanie D. Wilson, Paolo Nespoli (ESA); Daniel M. Tani; (up only) Clayton C. Anderson (down only)
Progress M-62 No. 362	2007 Dec. 23	2008 Feb. 15	27P	Cargo supply	-
2008
Progress M-63	2008 Feb. 5	2008 April 7	28P	Cargo supply	-
Atlantis STS-122	2008 Feb. 7	2008 Feb. 20	1E	Columbus European Laboratory Module Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure - Non-Deployable (MPESS-ND)	Stephen Frick, Alan Poindexter, Leland Melvin, Rex Walheim, Stanley Love, Leopold Eyharts (ESA) (up only), Hans Schlegel (ESA)
ATV-1	2008 March 9	In progress	ATV1	Cargo supply	-
Endeavour STS-123	2008 March 11	2008 March 26	1J/A	Kibo Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Pressurized Section (ELM-PS) Spacelab Pallet - Deployable 1 (SLP-D1) with Canadian Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, Dextre	Dominic Gorie, Gregory H. Johnson, Robert L. Behnken, Mike Foreman, Rick Linnehan, Garrett Reisman, (up only; returns with STS-124) Takao Doi (JAXA); Leopold Eyharts (ESA) (down only; arrived with STS-122)
Soyuz TMA-12	2008 April 8	In progress	16S	Expedition 17 delivery	Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko, So-yeon Yi, (South Korea) (up only; returns onboard Soyuz TMA-11)
Progress M-64	2008 May 15	In progress	29P	Cargo supply	-
Discovery STS-124	2008 May 31	2008 June 14	1J	Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Pressurized Module (JEM-PM) Japanese Remote Manipulator System (JEM RMS)	Mark Kelly, Ken Ham, Karen Nyberg, Ron Garan, Mike Fossum, Akihiko Hoshide, Greg Chamitoff (up only); Garrett Reisman (down only; arrived with STS-123)

*Reentry and burnup date for Progress and ATV cargo vehicles

**Long-duration (resident) crews shown in bold.

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This page is compiled and maintained by Anatoly Zak

Last update: June 14, 2008

The very first element of the Internatinal Space Station -- the Zarya FGB control module -- photographed in orbit during the STS-88 mission. Credit: NASA

The Zarya FGB control module (left) docked to the Unity module in the aftermath of the STS-88 mission in December 1998. Credit: NASA

The ISS, including recently arrived Zvezda service module and the Progress cargo ship, as seen at the end of the STS-106 mission on Sept. 18, 2000. Credit: NASA

During the STS-92 mission, the Shuttle attached the Z1 truss segment with a large antenna (right) to the Unity module. Credit: NASA

A visible size of the ISS grew dramatically with the delivery of the P6 truss, which unfurled giant solar panels above the outpost. Credit: NASA

The ISS after the STS-98 assembly flight in 2001, which delivered the Destiny lab (far right). Credit: NASA

The Quest airlock (top right) and the robotic arm had been the latest additions seen by the departing crew of the STS-104 mission. Credit: NASA

The station, as seen by the departing crew of the STS-110 mission. Newly delivered S0 truss can bee seen traversing the US segment. Also, a recently added Pirs docking compartment extends down from the Zvezda service module's nadir port. Credit: NASA

Starboard 1 (S1) truss extended the skeleton of the station away from pressurized modules during the STS-112 mission in October 2002. Credit: NASA

The station regained its symmetry with the addition of the Port 1 (P1) truss during the STS-113 mission in December 2002. The configuration of the outpost "froze" at this stage for years, in the wake of the Columbia accident. Credit: NASA

The ISS as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis at the conlusion of the STS-115 mission on September 17, 2006. Click to enlarge Credit: NASA

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The ISS as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Discovery at the conlusion of the STS-116 mission on Dec. 19, 2006. A new P5 spacer truss segment was added and P6 solar array wing was retracted during the mission. Credit: NASA

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The ISS as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis at the conclusion of the STS-117 mission on June 19, 2007. Credit: NASA

ISS after STS-120

The ISS as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Discovery at the conclusion of the STS-120 mission in November 2007. Credit: NASA

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The ISS as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis at the conclusion of the STS-122 mission in February 2008. Credit: NASA