The first International Space Station crew patch is a simplified graphic of the station complex when fully completed. The station is seen with solar arrays turned forward. The last names of the Expedition 1 crew, Soyuz pilot Yuri Gidzenko, flight engineer Sergei Krikalev, and expedition commander William (Bill)Shepherd, appear under the station symbol.

Expedition 1

Occurred 24 years ago

Expedition 1, the station's first long-term crew, explored a range of topics including how space affects biology and physics, and also studied Earth from above.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

William Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev, Yuri Gidzenko

Launch

Oct. 31, 2000

Landing

March 21, 2001

Expedition 1 Official Crew Portrait — ISS Expedition One Commander William M. (Bill) Shepherd (center) is flanked by Soyuz Commander Yuri P. Gidzenko (right) and Flight Engineer Sergei K. Krikalev (left) in this crew photograph, taken during a break in training in Russia. The three, posed in front of a rendition of the International Space Station, are wearing the Sokol space suits like those they will don for their Soyuz-provided trip to ISS later this month. National flags representing all the international partners run along the bottom of the portrait.
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Expedition 1 Official Crew Insignia — The official insignia of the Expedition 1 mission aboard the International Space Station.
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Crew Members

William Shepherd, Commander
Yuri Gidzenko, Flight Engineer
Sergei Krikalev, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

2/28/01 – ISS Progress 3 Dock
2/26/01 – ISS Progress 3 Launch
2/24/01 – Soyuz TM-31 Relocation
2/16/01 – STS-98 Undock
2/9/01 – STS-98 Dock
2/8/01 – ISS Progress 2 Undock
12/26/00 – ISS Progress 2 Redock
12/9/00 – STS-97 Undock
12/2/00 – STS-97 Dock
12/1/00 – ISS Progress 2 Undock
11/17/00 – ISS Progress 2 Dock
11/15/00 – ISS Progress 2 Launch
11/2/00 – Expedition 1 Dock
10/31/00 – Expedition 1 Launch

Spacewalks

Date: March 11, 2001
Duration: 8 hours, 56 minutes
Spacewalkers: James Voss, Susan Helms

Date: Feb. 14, 2001
Duration: 5 hours, 25 minutes
Spacewalkers: Thomas Jones, Robert Curbeam

Date: Feb. 12, 2001
Duration: 6 hours, 50 minutes
Spacewalkers: Thomas Jones, Robert Curbeam

Date: Feb. 10, 2001
Duration: 7 hours, 34 minutes
Spacewalkers: Thomas Jones, Robert Curbeam

Date: Dec. 7, 2000
Duration: 5 hours, 10 minutes
Spacewalkers: Joseph Tanner, Carlos Noriega

Date: Dec. 5, 2000
Duration: 6 hours, 37 minutes
Spacewalkers: Joseph Tanner, Carlos Noriega

Date: Dec. 3, 2000
Duration: 7 hours, 33 minutes
Spacewalkers: Joseph Tanner, Carlos Noriega

Expedition 1 Image Gallery

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The Expedition 1 crew members are about to eat fresh fruit in the form of oranges onboard the Zvezda Service Module of the Earth-orbiting Internati...

Joining hands during a break from training for their upcoming mission are, from the left, William M. Shepherd, Expedition 1 commander; Yuri P. Gidz...

The ISS Expedition 1 crew takes a break from training in the systems integration facility at the Johnson Space Center for a crew photo. From the le...

ISS Expedition One Commander William M. (Bill) Shepherd (center) is flanked by Soyuz Commander Yuri P. Gidzenko (right) and Flight Engineer Sergei ...

Astronaut William M. Shepherd, Expedition 1 commander, works on the food warmer for the Ward Room table aboard the station's Zvezda Service Module.

Cosmonaut Yuri P. Gidzenko, Soyuz commander for Expedition One, communicates with ground controllers onboard the Zvezda Service Module, one of the ...

Cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, Expedition 1 flight engineer, works at a computer station in the Zvezda Service Module aboard the Earth-orbiting Inte...

Astronaut William M. Shepherd, Expedition 1 mission commander, is pictured in a docking compartment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). T...

Cosmonaut Yuri P. Gidzenko, Soyuz commander for the Expedition 1 crew, is pictured onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during the first w...

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Expedition 1 Resources

Status Reports

Expedition 1 Status Reports from October 2000 through February 2001.

Earth's Moon, Venus, Jupiter and the crescent of Earth at the top.

Expedition Press Kit

Get an overview of Expedition 1, its crew, and the activities they were conducting during their mission to the International Space Station.

Mission Science

Learn more about the range of microgravity science encompassing human research, space phsyics, and more the Expedition 1 crew has conducted.

One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of 222 nautical miles above a point in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles off the coast of Africa near the Tropic of Cancer, photographed this eye-catching panorama of the night sky and the Milky Way on Sept. 27. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, flight engineer, tweeted the image, which was taken with an electronic still camera, set with a 24mm focal length. In his accompanying comments, Wiseman stated, "Sahara sands make the Earth glow orange."

Mission Imagery

During Expedition 1, the crew took images of the Earth views, the orbiting station, their daily lives aboard and the experiments they conducted during their stay, plus so much more. Check out some of the image highlights from Expedition 1 in the gallery.