Expedition 64

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The Expedition 64 crew grew radishes to advance space botany and nutrition research and tested drugs for treating leukemia. The astronauts also observed how microbes interact with rocks possibly informing space-mining techniques and studied space-caused changes in heart cells and tissues.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Kate Rubins, Victor Glover, Soichi Noguchi, Sergey Ryzhikov, Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov

Launch

Oct. 14, 2020

Landing

April 17, 2021

The expanded seven-member Expedition 64 crew with (from left) Flight Engineers Kate Rubins, Victor Glover and Soichi Noguchi, Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineers Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov. Rubins, Glover, Hopkins and Walker are all NASA astronauts. Noguchi is a JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut. Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov are cosmonauts representing Roscosmos.
NASA

Official Expedition 64 crew insignia — The official insignia of the Expedition 64 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Sergey Ryzhikov, Commander
Kate Rubins, Flight Engineer
Victor Glover, Flight Engineer
Soichi Noguchi, Flight Engineer
Michael Hopkins, Flight Engineer
Shannon Walker, Flight Engineer
Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

4/24/21 – SpaceX Crew-2 Dock
4/23/21 – SpaceX Crew-2 Launch
4/17/21 – Exp 64 Undock/Land
4/9/21 – Exp 65 Launch/Dock
4/5/21 – Crew Dragon Relocation
3/19/21 – Soyuz MS-17 Relocation
2/22/21 – Cygnus CRS-15 Capture
2/20/21 – Cygnus CRS-15 Launch
2/17/21 – ISS Progress 77 Dock
2/14/21 – ISS Progress 77 Launch
2/8/21 – ISS Progress 76 Undock
1/13/21 – SpaceX CRS-21 Splashdown
1/12/21 – SpaceX CRS-21 Undock
1/6/21 – Cygnus CRS-14 Release
12/7/20 – SpaceX CRS-21 Dock
12/6/20 – SpaceX CRS-21 Launch
11/16/20 – SpaceX Crew-1 Dock
11/15/20 – SpaceX Crew-1 Launch

Spacewalks

Date: March 13, 2021
Duration: 6 hours, 47 minutes
Spacewalkers: Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins

Date: March 5, 2021
Duration: 6 hours, 56 minutes
Spacewalkers: Kate Rubins, Soichi Noguchi

Date: Feb. 28, 2021
Duration: 7 hours, 4 minutes
Spacewalkers: Kate Rubins, Victor Glover

Date: Feb. 1, 2021
Duration: 5 hours, 20 minutes
Spacewalkers: Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover

Date: Jan. 27, 2021
Duration: 6 hours, 56 minutes
Spacewalkers: Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover

Date: Nov. 18, 2020
Duration: 6 hours, 48 minutes
Spacewalkers: Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov

Expedition 64 Resources

Mission Blogs

The daily blog updates for Expedition 64 highlighting crew and cargo missions, spacewalks, and advanced space research.

The sun's first rays burst over the Earth's horizon

Mission Summary

Get an overview of the Expedition, its crew and the activities they are working on during this mission to the International Space Station.

The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) Growth and Extinction Limits (GEL) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) studies flame growth and extinction in an effort to improve fire safety in space. This image shows a sequence of snapshots taken about 3 seconds apart. During this test point, the ambient oxygen concentration starts relatively high (28%). Initially, the flame is seen as yellow and sooty. As the ambient pressure is reduced, the flame becomes bluer and continues to shrink until fully extinguished. This gives researchers pressure limit data points for flame extinction that could help improve crew and spacecraft safety for future exploration missions.

Mission Science

Explore hands-on activities, interactive, lesson plans, educator guides, and other downloadable content about this topic.

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 64, 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 64 in the gallery.