Expedition 65

Occurred 2 years ago

The Expedition 65 crew explored ways to develop advanced medicines and therapies to treat diseases on Earth and studied how to grow plants with less water and pesticides. The crewmates also tested new portable ultrasound technology and installed new, more powerful roll-out solar arrays.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

Meet the crew

Pyotr Dubrov, Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet, Akihiko Hoshide, Oleg Novitskiy, Mark Vande Hei

Launch

April 9, 2021

Landing

Oct. 17, 2021

The seven-member Expedition 65 crew with (from left) Flight Engineers Pyotr Dubrov, Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur and Thomas Pesquet, with Commander Akihiko Hoshide and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Mark Vande Hei. Kimbrough, McArthur and Vande Hei are all NASA astronauts. Pesquet is an astronaut representing ESA (European Space Agency). Hoshide is a JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut. Dubrov and Novitskiy are cosmonauts representing Roscosmos.
NASA

The official insignia of the Expedition 65 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Thomas Pesquet, Commander
Pyotr Dubrov, Flight Engineer
Shane Kimbrough, Flight Engineer
Megan McArthur, Flight Engineer
Akihiko Hoshide, Flight Engineer
Oleg Novitskiy, Flight Engineer
Mark Vande Hei, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

10/5/21 – Soyuz MS-19 Launch/Dock
9/30/21 – SpaceX CRS-23 Undock
9/28/21 – Soyuz MS-18 Relocation
8/30/21 – SpaceX CRS-23 Dock
8/29/21 – SpaceX CRS-23 Launch
8/12/21 – Cygnus CRS-16 Capture
8/10/21 – Cygnus CRS-16 Launch
7/29/21 – Nauka MLM Installation
7/26/21 – ISS Progress 77/Pirs Undock
7/21/21 – Nauka MLM Launch
7/21/21 – SpaceX Crew-2 Relocation
7/8/21 – SpaceX CRS-22 Undock
7/1/21 – ISS Progress 78 Dock
6/29/21 – ISS Progress 78 Launch
6/29/21 – Cygnus CRS-15 Release
6/5/21 – SpaceX CRS-22 Dock
6/3/21 – SpaceX CRS-22 Launch
5/2/21 – SpaceX Crew-1 Splashdown
5/1/21 – SpaceX Crew-1 Undock
4/27/21 – ISS Progress 75 Undock

Spacewalks

Date: Sept. 9, 2021
Duration: 7 hours, 25 minutes
Spacewalkers: Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov

Date: Sept. 3, 2021
Duration: 7 hours, 54 minutes
Spacewalkers: Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov

Date: June 25, 2021
Duration: 6 hours, 45 minutes
Spacewalkers: Thomas Pesquet, Shane Kimbrough

Date: June 20, 2021
Duration: 6 hours, 28 minutes
Spacewalkers: Thomas Pesquet, Shane Kimbrough

Date: June 16, 2021
Duration: 7 hours, 15 minutes
Spacewalkers: Thomas Pesquet, Shane Kimbrough

Date: June 2, 2021
Duration: 7 hours, 19 minutes
Spacewalkers: Oleg Novitskiy, Pyotr Dubrov

Expedition 65 Resources

Mission Blogs

The daily blog updates for Expedition 65 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 65, 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 65 in the gallery.