
Expedition 67 was the 67th
long-duration expedition to the
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...
. The expedition began upon the departure of
Soyuz MS-19
Soyuz MS-19 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 5 October 2021, at 08:55:02 UTC. It was the 147th flight of a crewed Soyuz spacecraft. The launching crew consisted of Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov, Russian film director Klim Shipenk ...
on 30 March 2022 with
NASA
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astronaut
Thomas Marshburn
Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of three spaceflights to the International Space Station and holds the record for the oldest person to perform a spacewalk a ...
taking over as ISS commander. Initially, the expedition consisted of Marshburn and his three
SpaceX Crew-3
SpaceX Crew-3 was the SpaceX Dragon 2, Crew Dragon's third NASA Commercial Crew Program, Commercial Crew operational flight, and its fifth overall crewed orbital flight. The mission successfully launched on 11 November 2021 at 02:03:31 Coordina ...
crewmates
Raja Chari
Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari (born June 24, 1977) is an American test pilot and NASA astronaut. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, and has over 2,000 flyi ...
,
Kayla Barron
Kayla Jane Barron ( Sax; born September 19, 1987) is an American submarine warfare officer, engineer, and NASA astronaut. She was selected in June 2017 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 22, and later qualified as an astronaut in 2020. She t ...
, and
Matthias Maurer
Matthias Josef Maurer (born 18 March 1970) is a German European Space Agency, ESA astronaut and Materials science, materials scientist, who was selected in 2015 to take part in space training.
Biography
Maurer graduated from in Sankt Wendel, S ...
, as well as
Roscosmos
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cosmonauts
Oleg Artemyev
Oleg Germanovich Artemyev (; born December 28, 1970) is a Russian people, Russian Astronaut, Cosmonaut for the Russian Federal Space Agency. He was selected as part of the RKKE-15 Cosmonaut group in 2003. He was a flight engineer of Expedition 39 ...
,
Denis Matveev, and
Sergey Korsakov Sergey Korsakov may refer to:
* Sergei Korsakoff
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, who launched aboard
Soyuz MS-21
Soyuz MS-21 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) with a crew of three launched from Baikonur on 18 March 2022. The launch was previously planned for 30 March 2022, but in the provisional flight manifest prepa ...
on March 18, 2022 and transferred from Expedition 66 alongside the Crew-3 astronauts. However, continued international collaboration has been thrown into doubt by the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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and related sanctions on Russia.
During Expedition 67, the space station was also visited by the crew of
Axiom Mission 1
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, a space tourist mission that brought three spaceflight participants to the station on April 9, 2022 along with former NASA astronaut
Michael López-Alegría
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, who had previously commanded the station during
Expedition 14
Expedition 14 was the 14th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Commander Michael López-Alegría, and flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 September 2006, 04:09 UTC, aboard Soyuz TMA-9. They j ...
. They departed the ISS on April 25, 2022.
Crew-3 departed on May 5, 2022 and was replaced by
SpaceX Crew-4
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, which ferried
NASA
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astronauts
Kjell N. Lindgren,
Bob Hines and
Jessica Watkins
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, as well as
ESA
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astronaut
Samantha Cristoforetti
Samantha Cristoforetti (; born 26 April 1977) is an Italian European Astronaut Corps, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, former Italian Air Force pilot and engineer. She is the second of two Women in space, women sent into space by ESA and ...
, to the station.
Before departing, Marshburn handed command of the station over to Artemyev.
Starliner visited the station in May for the first time in May 2022 during
OFT-2 mission. At the end of Expedition 67, they remained on the ISS as part of Expedition 68 in September 2022.
Crew
Notes
References
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