Expedition 65

ISS Expedition 65

Mission type	Long-duration mission to the ISS
Operator	NASA / Roscosmos
Mission duration	1283 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	17 April 2021, 19:45:00 UTC
Ended	October 2021 (planned)
Arrived aboard	SpaceX Crew-1 Soyuz MS-18 SpaceX Crew-2 Soyuz MS-19
Crew
Crew size	7-11
Members	Shannon Walker Michael Hopkins Victor Glover Soichi Noguchi Akihiko Hoshide Thomas Pesquet Shane Kimbrough Megan McArthur Oleg Novitsky Pyotr Dubrov Mark Vande Hei Anton Shkaplerov
EVAs	≥1 (planned)
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Expedition 65 is the 65th long duration expedition to the International Space Station. The mission began on 16 April 2021, with the departure of Soyuz MS-17, and was initially commanded by NASA astronaut Shannon Walker serving as the third female ISS commander, who launched in November 2020 aboard SpaceX Crew-1 alongside NASA astronauts Michael S. Hopkins and Victor J. Glover, as well as JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. They were joined by the crew of Soyuz MS-18, which is made up of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

In accordance with Crew Dragon Resilience's departure on May 2, 2021, Crew-1's crew was replaced by the crew of SpaceX Crew-2, which launched on April 23, 2021 and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide took Walker's place as station commander making Walker the shortest-serving ISS commander - holding the position for just 11 days. The undocking of Soyuz MS-18 will mark the end of the expedition.

Visiting vehicles and crews

Expedition 65 is occurring during a very busy time in the ISS's schedule, with the Expedition expected to host two SpaceX Crew Dragon missions, Crew-1, Crew-2, as well as two Soyuz flights, Soyuz MS-18 and Soyuz MS-19.

When the Expedition began, with the undocking of Soyuz MS-17 in April 2021, two vehicles were present on the station, Crew Dragon Resilience, carrying the SpaceX Crew-1 crew, and the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft. Crew-1 mission specialist Shannon Walker initially commanded the station until she and her three crewmates, Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Soichi Noguchi, departed the station following the arrival of Crew Dragon Endeavour, carrying SpaceX Crew-2 in April 2021. Following the departure of Crew-1, Crew-2 mission specialist Akihiko Hoshide took over as station commander, making him the second Japanese citizen to command the ISS. In September 2021, Soyuz MS-19 will launch, carrying Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film director Klim Shipenko and a currently unnamed Russian actress. The latter two will spend 12 days onboard the station as part of a movie project.

There are currently four spacewalks planned to be carried out from the US Orbital Segment (USOS) of the space station to install the first four of a set of six new Roll Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) for the station, scheduled to be delivered on SpaceX CRS-22 on 3 June 2021 and SpaceX CRS-23 on 18 August 2021. At least two are planned from the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) to facilitate the installation of Nauka with European Robotic Arm aboard the station, as well as prepare the new module for the arrival of the Prichal docking node, which is scheduled to arrive during Expedition 66.

Crew

Position	15 April – 27 April 2021	27 April – 5 October 2021	5 October – 13 October 2021
Commander	Shannon Walker, NASA Second spaceflight	Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Michael S. Hopkins, NASA Second spaceflight	Shane Kimbrough, NASA Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	Victor J. Glover, NASA First spaceflight	Megan McArthur, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3	Soichi Noguchi, JAXA Third spaceflight	Thomas Pesquet, ESA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4	Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5	Pyotr Dubrov, Roscosmos First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 6	Mark Vande Hei, NASA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 7	—		Anton Shkaplerov, Roscosmos Fourth spaceflight