Soyuz

Soyuz, any of several versions of Soviet/Russian crewed spacecraft launched since 1967 and the longest-serving crewed-spacecraft design in use. Originally conceived in Soviet aerospace designer Sergey Korolyov’s design bureau (Energia) for the U.S.S.R.’s Moon-landing program (officially canceled in 1974), the modular craft has served mainly as a crew ferry to and from Earth-orbiting space stations, specifically the Salyut stations, Mir, and the International Space Station (ISS). Soyuz is the Russian word for “union.”

The 7-metre- (23-foot-) long, seven-metric-ton vehicle comprises three modules joined in line—a central, bell-shaped descent module with contoured couches for as many as three persons during ascent, descent, and landing; a cylindrical service module mounted at the rear that provides propulsion, life support, and electrical power; and a spheroidal orbital module in front that carries the docking system and contains living facilities and cargo for the orbital phase of the mission. The three modules remain together throughout the mission until the spacecraft is deorbited; only the descent module returns to Earth intact. The first crewed launch of a Soyuz took place on April 23, 1967. Its single test pilot, Vladimir Komarov, was killed when the descent module’s parachute failed to unfurl after reentry and the module crashed—the first human death during a spaceflight.

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After losing the race to the Moon in 1969, the Soviet Union adapted the Soyuz to ferry crews to space stations. Soyuz 11 carried the inaugural crew to the Salyut 1 station in June 1971, but, after a record-setting 23 days aboard, the three cosmonauts died when their descent module accidentally depressurized while returning to Earth. In redesigning the spacecraft to forestall another such accident, one couch was removed to accommodate an independent life-support system for individual pressure suits. A modified version flew in July 1975 for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first U.S.-Soviet joint space venture. During the 1970s an automated derivative of Soyuz, known as Progress, was developed as a space station resupply vehicle; cargo and refueling modules replaced the orbital and descent modules in the Soyuz design. Its operational use began in 1978 with a mission to Salyut 6.

The first major redesign of Soyuz was introduced in 1979. Called the Soyuz T, it had advanced equipment and capabilities and restored the third crew seat. The Soyuz TM version, an upgrade featuring a variety of new systems, made its first crewed flight in 1987 when it carried Mir’s second crew to the then-embryonic space station. The Soyuz TMA debuted in 2002 with a crewed flight to the ISS; its design incorporated changes to meet certain National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) requirements as an ISS “lifeboat,” including eased height and weight restrictions for crew members. An upgraded version of Progress was also used to ferry cargo to the ISS. After the in-flight explosion of the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Columbia in February 2003 and the consequent grounding of the shuttle fleet, Soyuz spacecraft for a time provided the only means for ISS crew exchanges until shuttle flights resumed in July 2005. A new Soyuz version, TMA-M, first launched in 2010. After the U.S. space shuttle program ended in 2011, Soyuz once again became the only spacecraft that could take astronauts to the ISS. An upgraded version, MS, with improved solar arrays and thrusters and extra shielding against micrometeoroids, made its first launch in 2016. Pending the development of a new U.S. crewed spacecraft, Soyuz is the only spacecraft other than China’s Shenzhou (which is based on Soyuz) that flies astronauts into space.

A chronology of spaceflights in the Soyuz program is shown in the table.

Chronology of crewed Soyuz missions

	mission	crew	dates	notes
	Soyuz 1	Vladimir Komarov	April 23–24, 1967	first spaceflight casualty, parachute deployed incorrectly during reentry
	Soyuz 3	Georgy Beregovoy	October 26–30, 1968	attempted to dock with unmanned Soyuz 2
	Soyuz 4	Vladimir Shatalov	January 14–17, 1969	docked with Soyuz 5 on January 16
		Aleksey Yeliseyev (down)
		Yevgeny Khrunov (down)
	Soyuz 5	Boris Volynov	January 15–18, 1969	Yeliseyev and Khrunov spacewalked to Soyuz 4
		Aleksey Yeliseyev (up)
		Yevgeny Khrunov (up)
	Soyuz 6	Georgy Shonin	October 11–16, 1969	Kubasov performed welding experiments; rendezvous with Soyuz 7 and 8
		Valery Kubasov
	Soyuz 7	Anatoly Filipchenko	October 12–17, 1969	unsuccessful attempt to dock with Soyuz 8
		Vladislav Volkov
		Viktor Gorbatko
	Soyuz 8	Vladimir Shatalov	October 13–18, 1969	unsuccessful attempt to dock with Soyuz 7
		Aleksey Yeliseyev
	Soyuz 9	Andriyan Nikolayev	June 1–19, 1970	new space endurance record (17 days 17 hours)
		Vitaly Sevastiyanov
	Soyuz 10	Vladimir Shatalov	April 22–24, 1971	docked with Salyut space station, but faulty hatch on Soyuz did not allow crew to enter
		Aleksey Yeliseyev
		Nikolay Rukavishnikov
	Soyuz 11/Salyut 1	Georgy Dobrovolsky	June 6–29, 1971	new space endurance record (23 days 18 hours); first stay on a space station (Salyut); crew died when capsule depressurized during reentry
		Viktor Patsayev
		Vladislav Volkov
	Soyuz 12	Vasily Lazarev	September 27–29, 1973	tested modifications to Soyuz since Soyuz 11 disaster
		Oleg Makarov
	Soyuz 13	Pyotr Klimuk	December 18–26, 1973	first spaceflight devoted to one instrument, the Orion ultraviolet telescope
		Valentin Lebedev
	Soyuz 14/Salyut 3	Pavel Popovich	July 3–19, 1974	first mission to military space station
		Yury Artyukhin
	Soyuz 15	Gennady Sarafanov	August 26–28, 1974	failed to dock with Salyut 3
		Lev Dyomin
	Soyuz 16	Anatoly Filipchenko	December 2–8, 1974	rehearsal for Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
		Nikolay Rukavishnikov
	Soyuz 17/Salyut 4	Alexey Gubarev	January 11–February 10, 1975	conducted studies in meteorology, solar astronomy, atmospheric physics
		Georgy Grechko
	Soyuz 18-1	Vasily Lazarev	April 5, 1975	third stage failed, forcing emergency landing
		Oleg Makarov
	Soyuz 18/Salyut 4	Pyotr Klimuk	May 24–July 26, 1975	continued experiments begun on Soyuz 17
		Vitaly Sevastyanov
	Soyuz 19	Aleksey Leonov	July 15–21, 1975	docked in space with Apollo
		Valery Kubasov
	Soyuz 21/Salyut 5	Boris Volynov	July 6–August 24, 1976	mission aborted due to noxious odour
		Vitaly Zholobov
	Soyuz 22/Salyut 5	Valery Bykovsky	September 15–23, 1976	photographed parts of East Germany in multiple wavelengths
		Vladimir Aksyonov
	Soyuz 23	Vyacheslav Zudov	October 14–16, 1976	failed to dock with Salyut 5
		Valery Rozhdestvensky
	Soyuz 24/Salyut 5	Viktor Gorbatko	February 7–25, 1977	replaced entire air supply of Salyut 5
		Yury Glazkov
	Soyuz 25	Vladimir Kovalyonok	October 9–11, 1977	failed to dock with Salyut 5
		Valery Ryumin
	Soyuz 26/Salyut 6/Soyuz 27	Yuri Romanenko	December 10, 1977–March 16, 1978	new space endurance record (96 days 10 hours)
		Georgy Grechko
	Soyuz 27/Salyut 6/Soyuz 26	Vladimir Dzhanibekov	January 10–16, 1978	first crew to return to Earth in different vessel than they launched in
		Oleg Makarov
	Soyuz 28/Salyut 6	Aleksey Gubarev	March 2–10, 1978	first Czech astronaut (Remek)
		Vladimír Remek
	Soyuz 29/Salyut 6/Soyuz 31	Vladimir Kovalyonok	June 15–November 2, 1978	new space endurance record (139 days 15 hours)
		Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
	Soyuz 30/Salyut 6	Pyotr Klimuk	June 27–July 5, 1978	first Polish astronaut (Hermaszewski)
		Mirosław Hermaszewski
	Soyuz 31/Salyut 6/Soyuz 29	Valery Bykovsky	August 26–September 3, 1978	first German astronaut (Jähn)
		Sigmund Jähn
	Soyuz 32/Salyut 6/Soyuz 34	Vladimir Lyakhov	February 25–August 19, 1979	new space endurance record (175 days 1 hour)
		Valery Ryumin
	Soyuz 33	Nikolay Rukavishnikov;	April 10–12, 1979	first Bulgarian astronaut (Ivanov)
		Georgy Ivanov
	Soyuz 35/Salyut 6/Soyuz 37	Leonid Popov	April 9–October 11, 1980	new space endurance record (184 days 20 hours)
		Valery Ryumin
	Soyuz 36/Salyut 6/Soyuz 35	Valery Kubasov	May 26–June 3, 1980	first Hungarian astronaut (Farkas)
		Bertalan Farkas
	Soyuz T-2/Salyut 6	Yuri Malyshev	June 5–9, 1980	test flight of updated Soyuz
		Vladimir Aksyonov
	Soyuz 37/Salyut 6/Soyuz 36	Viktor Gorbatko	July 23–31, 1980	first Vietnamese astronaut (Tuân)
		Phạm Tuân
	Soyuz 38/Salyut 6	Yury Romanenko	September 18–26, 1980	first Cuban astronaut (Tamayo Méndez
		Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
	Soyuz T-3/Salyut 6	Leonid Kizim	November 27–December 10, 1980	conducted maintenance and repairs of Salyut 6
		Oleg Makarov
		Gennady Strekalov
	Soyuz T-4/Salyut 6	Vladimir Kovalyonok	March 12–May 26, 1981	conducted biomedical experiments
		Viktor Savinykh
	Soyuz 39/Salyut 6	Vladimir Dzhanibekov	March 22–30, 1981	first Mongolian astronaut (Gurragcha)
		Jugderdemidiin Gurragcha
	Soyuz 40/Salyut 6	Leonid Popov	May 14–22, 1981	first Romanian astronaut (Prunariu)
		Dumitru Prunariu
	Soyuz T-5/Salyut 7/Soyuz T-7	Anatoly Berezovoy	May 13–December 10, 1982	new space endurance record
		Valentin Lebedev
	Soyuz T-6/Salyut 7	Vladimir Dzhanibekov	June 24–July 2, 1982	first French astronaut (Chrétien)
		Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
		Jean-Loup Chrétien
	Soyuz T-7/Salyut 7/Soyuz T-5	Leonid Popov	August 19–27, 1982	second woman in space (Savitskaya)
		Aleksandr Serebrov
		Svetlana Savitskaya
	Soyuz T-8	Vladimir Titov	April 20–22, 1983	failed to dock with Salyut 7
		Gennady Strekalov
		Aleksandr Serebrov
	Soyuz T-9/Salyut 7	Vladimir Lyakhov	June 27–November 23, 1983	attached Salyut 7 to experimental solar cell battery
		Aleksandr Aleksandrov
	Soyuz T-10/Salyut 7/Soyuz T-11	Leonid Kizim	February 8–October 2, 1984	new space endurance record (236 days 23 hours)
		Vladimir Solovyov
		Oleg Atkov
	Soyuz T-11/Salyut 7/Soyuz T-10	Yury Malyshev	April 3–11, 1984	first Indian astronaut (Sharma)
		Gennady Strekalov
		Rakesh Sharma
	Soyuz T-12/Salyut 7	Vladimir Dzhanibekov	July 17–29, 1984	first woman to walk in space (Savitskaya)
		Svetlana Savitskaya
		Igor Volk
	Soyuz T-13/Salyut 7	Vladimir Dzhanibekov	June 6–September 26, 1985(November 21 [Savinykh])	repaired dead space station
		Viktor Savinykh
	Soyuz T-14/Salyut 7	Vladimir Vasyutin	September 17–November 21, 1985 (September 26 [Grechko])	mission cut short due to unexpected psychological illness of Vasyutin
		Aleksandr Volkov
		Georgy Grechko
	Soyuz T-15/Mir/Salyut 7	Leonid Kizim	March 13–July 16, 1986	first spaceflight between two space stations
		Vladimir Solovyov
	Soyuz TM-2/Mir	Aleksandr Laveykin	February 5–July 30, 1987 (December 29 [Romanenko])	new space endurance record (Romanenko; 326 days 12 hours); addition of Kvant 1 module to Mir
		Yury Romanenko
	Soyuz TM-3/Mir	Aleksandr Viktorenko	July 22–July 30, 1987 (December 29 [Aleksandrov])	first Syrian astronaut (Faris)
		Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov
		Muhammed Faris
	Soyuz TM-4/Mir	Vladimir Titov	December 21, 1987–December 21, 1988 (December 29, 1987 [Levchenko])	new space endurance record (Titov and Manarov; 365 days 23 hours)
		Musa Manarov
		Anatoly Levchenko
	Soyuz TM-5/Mir	Anatoly Solovyov	June 7–17, 1988	second Bulgarian astronaut (Aleksandrov)
		Viktor Savinykh
		leksandr Panayatov Aleksandrov
	Soyuz TM-6/Mir	Vladimir Lyakhov	August 29–September 7, 1988 (April 4, 1989 [Polyakov])	first Afghan astronaut (Mohmand)
		Valery Polyakov
		Abdul Ahad Mohmand
	Soyuz TM-7/Mir	Aleksandr Volkov	November 26, 1988– April 27, 1989 (December 21, 1988 [Chrétien])	Mir was left unoccupied after crew returned to Earth
		Sergey Krikalyov
		Jean-Loup Chrétien
	Soyuz TM-8/Mir	Aleksandr Viktorenko	September 5, 1989– February 19, 1990	addition of Kvant 2 module to Mir
		Aleksandr Serebrov
	Soyuz TM-9/Mir	Anatoly Solovyov	February 11–August 9, 1990	addition of Kristall module to Mir
		Aleksandr Balandin
	Soyuz TM-10/Mir	Gennady Manakov	August 1–December 10, 1990	crew performed space walk to fix damaged hatch on Kvant 2
		Gennady Strekalov
	Soyuz TM-11/Mir	Viktor Afanasiyev	December 2, 1990– May 26, 1991 (December 10, 1990 [Akiyama])	first Japanese citizen in space (Akiyama)
		Musa Manarov
		Akiyama Toyohiro
	Soyuz TM-12/Mir	Anatoly Artsebarsky	May 18–October 10, 1991 (March 25, 1992 [Krikalyov] May 26, 1991 [Sharman])	first British astronaut (Sharman)
		Sergey Krikalyov
		Helen Sharman
	Soyuz TM-13/Mir	Aleksandr Volkov	October 2, 1991– March 25, 1992 (October 10, 1991 [Aubakirov; Viehböck])	first Austrian astronaut (Viehböck)
		Toktar Aubakirov
		Franz Viehböck
	Soyuz TM-14/Mir	Aleksandr Viktorenko	March 17–August 10, 1992 (March 25 [Flade])	first Russian spaceflight after breakup of the U.S.S.R.
		Aleksandr Kalery
		Klaus-Dietrich Flade
	Soyuz TM-15/Mir	Anatoly Solovyov	July 27, 1992– February 1, 1993 (August 10, 1992 [Tognini])	crew performed space walks to extend lifetime of Mir
		Sergey Avdeyev
		Michel Tognini
	Soyuz TM-16/Mir	Gennady Manakov	January 24–July 22, 1993	placed docking target on Mir for use by space shuttle Atlantis
		Aleksandr Poleshchuk
	Soyuz TM-17/Mir	Vasily Tsibliyev	July 1, 1993– January 14, 1994 (July 22, 1993 [Haigneré])	slight collision with Mir
		Aleksandr Serebrov
		Jean-Pierre Haigneré
	Soyuz TM-18/Mir	Viktor Afanasiyev	January 8–July 9, 1994 (March 22, 1995 [Polyakov])	new space endurance record (Polyakov; 437 days 18 hours)
		Yury Usachyov
		Valery Polyakov
	Soyuz TM-19/Mir	Yury Malenchenko	July 1–November 4, 1994	Malenchenko performed first manual docking of Progress resupply ship
		Talgat Musabayev
	Soyuz TM-20/Mir	Aleksandr Viktorenko	October 4, 1994–March 22, 1995 (November 4, 1994 [Merbold])	first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight (Kondakova)
		Elena Kondakova
		Ulf Merbold
	Soyuz TM-21/Mir	Vladimir Dezhurov	March 14–July 7, 1995	first American to fly on Russian spacecraft (Thagard); addition of Spektr module to Mir
		Gennady Strekalov
		Norman Thagard
	Soyuz TM-22/Mir	Yury Gidzenko	September 3, 1995– February 29, 1996	first German to walk in space (Reiter)
		Sergei Avdeyev
		Thomas Reiter
	Soyuz TM-23/Mir	Yuri Onufriyenko	February 21–September 2, 1996	addition of Priroda module to Mir
		Yury Usachyov
	Soyuz TM-24/Mir	Valery Korzun	August 17, 1996–March 2, 1997 (September 2, 1996 [André-Deshays])	first French woman in space (André-Deshays)
		Aleksandr Kaleri
		Claudie André-Deshays
	Soyuz TM-25/Mir	Vasily Tsibliyev	February 10–August 14, 1997 (March 2 [Ewald])	fire seriously damaged Mir's oxygen generation system (February 23); collision with Progress punctured Spektr module (June 25)
		Aleksandr Lazutkin
		Reinhold Ewald
	Soyuz TM-26/Mir	Anatoly Solovyov	August 5, 1997– February 19, 1998	Mir's oxygen generation system repaired
		Pavel Vinogradov
	Soyuz TM-27/Mir	Talgat Musabayev	January 29–August 25, 1998 (February 19 [Eyharts])	unsuccessful attempt to repair Spektr solar panel
		Nikolay Budarin
		Leopold Eyharts
	Soyuz TM-28/Mir	Gennady Padalka	August 13, 1998– February 28, 1999 (August 28, 1999 [Avdeyev] August 25, 1998 [Baturin])	first Russian politician in space (Baturin)
		Sergey Avdeyev
		Yury Baturin
	Soyuz TM-29/Mir	Viktor Afanasiyev	February 20–August 28, 1999 (February 28 [Bella])	first Slovak astronaut (Bella)
		Jean-Pierre Haigneré
		Ivan Bella
	Soyuz TM-30/Mir	Sergey Zalyotin	April 4–June 16, 2000	last occupants of Mir
		Aleksandr Kaleri
	Soyuz TM-31/ISS	Yury Gidzenko	October 31, 2000– March 21, 2001	first ISS crew (Expedition 1)
		William Shepherd
		Sergey Krikalyov
	Soyuz TM-32/ISS	Talgat Musabayev	April 28–May 6, 2001	first space tourist (Tito)
		Yury Baturin
		Dennis Tito
	Soyuz TM-33/ISS	Viktor Afanasiyev	October 21–31, 2001	exchange of Soyuz return craft for ISS crew
		Claudie Haigneré
		Konstantin Kozeyev
	Soyuz TM-34/ISS	Yury Gidzenko	April 25–May 5, 2002	first South African space traveler (Shuttleworth)
		Roberto Vittori
		Mark Shuttleworth
	Soyuz TMA-1/ISS	Sergei Zalyotin	October 30–November 10, 2002	exchange of Soyuz return craft for ISS crew
		Frank De Winne
		Yury Lonchakov
	Soyuz TMA-2/ISS	Yury Malchenko Edward Lu	April 26–October 28, 2003	Expedition 7 crew to ISS
		Edward Lu
	Soyuz TMA-3/ISS	Aleksandr Kaleri	October 18, 2003– April 30, 2004 (October 28, 2003 [Duque])	Expedition 8 crew (Kaleri, Foale) to ISS
		Pedro Duque
		Michael Foale
	Soyuz TMA-4/ISS	Gennadi Padalka	April 19–October 24, 2004 (April 30 [Kuipers])	Expedition 9 crew (Padalka, Fincke) to ISS
		Andre Kuipers
		Michael Fincke
	Soyuz TMA-5/ISS	Salizhan Sharipov	October 14, 2004– April 24, 2005 (October 24, 2004 [Shargin])	Expedition 10 crew (Sharipov, Chiao) to ISS
		Leroy Chiao
		Yury Shargin
	Soyuz TMA-6/ISS	Sergey Krikalyov	April 15–October 11, 2005 (October 24 [Vittori])	Expedition 11 crew (Krikalyov, Phillips) to ISS
		Roberto Vittori
		John Phillips
	Soyuz TMA-7/ISS	Valery Tokarev	October 1, 2005– April 8, 2006 (October 11, 2005 [Olsen])	Expedition 12 crew (McArthur, Tokarev) to ISS
		William McArthur
		Gregory Olsen
	Soyuz TMA-8/ISS	Pavel Vinogradov	March 30–September 29, 2006 (April 8 [Pontes])	Expedition 13 crew (Vinogradov, Williams) to ISS; first Brazilian astronaut (Pontes)
		Jeffrey Williams
		Marcos Pontes
	Soyuz TMA-9/ISS	Mikhail Tyurin	September 18, 2006– April 21, 2007 (September 29, 2006 [Ansari])	Expedition 14 crew (Lopez-Alegria, Tyurin) to ISS
		Michael Lopez-Alegria
		Anousheh Ansari
	Soyuz TMA-10/ISS	Oleg Kotov	April 7–October 21, 2007 (April 21 [Simonyi])	Expedition 15 crew (Kotov, Yurchikhin) to ISS
		Fyodor Yurchikhin
		Charles Simonyi
	Soyuz TMA-11/ISS	Yury Malenchenko	October 10, 2007– April 19, 2008 (October 21, 2007 [Sheikh])	Expedition 16 crew (Whitson, Malenchenko) to ISS; first Malaysian astronaut (Sheikh)
		Peggy Whitson
		Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
	Soyuz TMA-12/ISS	Sergey Volkov	April 8–October 24, 2008 (April 19 [Yi])	Expedition 17 crew (Volkov, Kononenko) to ISS; first second-generation cosmonaut (Volkov); first Korean astronaut (Yi)
		Oleg Kononenko
		Yi So-Yeon
	Soyuz TMA-13/ISS	Yuri Lonchakov	October 12, 2008– April 8, 2009 (October 24, 2008 [Garriott])	Expedition 18 crew (Fincke, Lonchakov) to ISS; first second-generation American space traveler (Garriott)
		Michael Fincke
		Richard Garriott
	Soyuz TMA-14/ISS	Gennadi Padalka	March 26–October 11, 2009 (April 8 [Simonyi])	Expeditions 19 and 20 crew (Padalka, Barratt); first repeat space tourist (Simonyi)
		Michael Barratt
		Charles Simonyi
	Soyuz TMA-15/ISS	Roman Romanenko	May 27–December 1, 2009	Expeditions 20 and 21 crew; brought ISS to full crew of six
		Frank De Winne
		Robert Thirsk
	Soyuz TMA-16/ISS	Maksim Suryaev	September 29, 2009– March 18, 2010 (October 11, 2009 [Laliberté])	Expeditions 21 and 22 crew (Suryaev, Williams)
		Jeffrey Williams
		Guy Laliberté
	Soyuz TMA-17/ISS	Oleg Kotov	December 21, 2009– June 2, 2010	Expeditions 22 and 23 crew
		Noguchi Soichi
		Timothy Creamer
	Soyuz TMA-18/ISS	Aleksandr Skvortsov	April 4–September 25, 2010	Expeditions 23 and 24 crew
		Mikhail Korniyenko
		Tracy Caldwell-Dyson
	Soyuz TMA-19/ISS	Fyodor Yurchikhin	June 16–November 26, 2010	Expeditions 24 and 25 crew
		Shannon Walker
		Douglas Wheelock
	Soyuz TMA-01M/ISS	Aleksandr Kaleri	October 8, 2010–March 16, 2011	Expeditions 25 and 26 crew
		Oleg Skripochka
		Scott Kelly
	Soyuz TMA-20/ISS	Dmitry Kondratyev	December 15, 2010–May 24, 2011	Expeditions 26 and 27 crew
		Paolo Nespoli
		Catherine Coleman
	Soyuz TMA-21/ISS	Aleksandr Samokutyayev	April 5–September 16, 2011	Expeditions 27 and 28 crew
		Andrei Borisenko
		Ronald Garan
	Soyuz TMA-02M/ISS	Sergey Volkov	June 7–November 22, 2011	Expeditions 28 and 29 crew
		Furukawa Satoshi
		Michael Fossum
	Soyuz TMA-22/ISS	Anton Shkaplerov	November 11, 2011–April 27, 2012	Expeditions 29 and 30 crew
		Anatoly Ivanishin
		Daniel Burbank
	Soyuz TMA-03M/ISS	Oleg Kononenko	December 21, 2011–July 1, 2012	Expeditions 30 and 31 crew
		André Kuipers
		Donald Pettit
	Soyuz TMA-04M/ISS	Gennady Padalka	May 15–September 17, 2012	Expeditions 31 and 32 crew
		Sergey Revin
		Joseph Acaba
	Soyuz TMA-05M/ISS	Yury Malenchenko	July 15–November 19, 2012	Expeditions 32 and 33 crew
		Sunita Williams
		Hoshide Akihiko
	Soyuz TMA-06M/ISS	Oleg Novitsky	October 23, 2012– March 16, 2013	Expeditions 33 and 34 crew
		Yevgeny Tarelkin
		Kevin Ford
	Soyuz TMA-07M/ISS	Roman Romanenko	December 19, 2012– May 14, 2013	Expeditions 34 and 35 crew
		Chris Hadfield
		Thomas Marshburn
	Soyuz TMA-08M/ISS	Pavel Vinogradov	March 28–September 11, 2013	Expeditions 35 and 36 crew
		Aleksandr Misurkin
		Christopher Cassidy
	Soyuz TMA-09M/ISS	Fyodor Yurchikhin	May 28–November 11, 2013	Expeditions 36 and 37 crew; space walk cut short when water leaked into Parmitano's helmet (July 16)
		Luca Parmitano
		Karen Nyberg
	Soyuz TMA-10M/ISS	Oleg Kotov	September 25, 2013– March 11, 2014	Expeditions 37 and 38 crew
		Sergey Ryazansky
		Michael Hopkins
	Soyuz TMA-11M/ISS	Mikhail Tyurin	November 7, 2013– May 14, 2014	Expeditions 38 and 39 crew
		Richard Mastracchio
		Wakata Koichi
	Soyuz TMA-12M/ISS	Aleksandr Skvortsov	March 25–September 11, 2014	Expeditions 39 and 40 crew
		Oleg Artemyev
		Steven Swanson
	Soyuz TMA-13M/ISS	Maksim Surayev Gregory Wiseman Alexander Gerst	May 28–November 10, 2014	Expeditions 40 and 41 crew
		Gregory Wiseman
		Alexander Gerst
	Soyuz TMA-14M/ISS	Aleksandr Samokutyayev	September 26, 2014– March 12, 2015	Expeditions 41 and 42 crew
		Yelena Serova
		Barry Willmore
	Soyuz TMA-15M/ISS	Anton Shkaplerov	November 24, 2014–June 11, 2015	Expeditions 42 and 43 crew
		Samantha Cristoforetti
		Terry Virts
	Soyuz TMA-16M/ISS	Gennadi Padalka	March 27, 2015–March 2, 2016 (September 12, 2015 [Padalka])	Expeditions 43, 44, 45, and 46 crew (Padalka Expeditions 43 and 44)
		Mikhail Korniyenko
		Scott Kelly
	Soyuz TMA-17M/ISS	Oleg Kononenko	July 23– December 11, 2015	Expeditions 44 and 45 crew
		Yui Kimiya
		Kjell Lindgren
	Soyuz TMA-18M/ISS	Sergey Volkov	September 2–12, 2015 (March 2, 2016 [Volkov])	Expeditions 45 and 46 crew (Volkov); first Danish astronaut (Mogensen)
		Andreas Mogensen
		Aydyn Aimbetov
	Soyuz TMA-19M/ISS	Yury Malenchenko	December 15, 2015– June 18, 2016	Expeditions 46 and 47 crew
		Timothy Kopra
		Timothy Peake
	Soyuz TMA-20M/ISS	Aleksey Ovchinin	March 19–September 7, 2016	Expeditions 47 and 48 crew
		Oleg Skripochka
		Jeffrey Williams
	Soyuz MS-01/ISS	Anatoly Ivanishin	July 7–October 30, 2016	Expeditions 48 and 49 crew
		Onishi Takuya
		Kathleen Rubins
	Soyuz MS-02/ISS	Sergey Ryzhikov	October 19, 2016–	Expeditions 49 and 50 crew
		Andrey Borisenko
		Robert Kimbrough
	Soyuz MS-03/ISS	Oleg Novitsky	November 18, 2016–	Expeditions 50 and 51 crew
		Thomas Pesquet
		Peggy Whitson