iss065e002882 (April 24, 2021) — The 11-member crew aboard the International Space Station is actually a combination of three different crews. In the back row (from left), are NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, who rode the Soyuz MS-18 crew ship to the orbital lab on April 9. In the center, are the SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Shane Kimbrough of NASA, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, and Megan McArthur from NASA. They arrived at the station on April 24. In the far left and right corners, are the SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts Michael Hopkins of NASA, Soichi Noguchi from JAXA, and Shannon Walker and Victor Glover, both from NASA. The Crew-1 quartet have been aboard the station since Nov. 16 and are nearing the end of their mission.
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