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Space Shuttle The crew of STS-61A poses for their traditional in- flight portrait. Eight ESA and NASA astronauts (the current record) flew the Space Shuttle Challenger, carrying the NASA/ESA Spacelab module into orbit with 76 scientific experiments on board. The Space Shuttle Orbiter carried crews to and from Low Earth Orbit on 133 successful missions between 1981 and 2011. International Space Station ESA astronaut Leopold Eyharts (left), flight engineer; along with NASA astronauts Leland Melvin and Daniel Tani, mission specialists, are pictured here working in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. For over 22 years, astronauts, cosmonauts, and space tourists from 19 different nations have visited the space station, conducting research in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, and physics, and testing the spacecraft systems and equipment required for future long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars.
SpaceX Crew-1 From left, Mission Specialist Shannon Walker, Pilot Victor Glover, Crew Dragon Commander Michael Hopkins—all NASA astronauts—and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut and Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi are seated in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft during crew equipment interface training. The NASA SpaceX Crew-1 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on November 15, 2021, and successfully docked at the International Space Station on November 17 where they begin a six-month stay.
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Orion Spacesuit engineers demonstrate how four crew members would be arranged for launch inside the Orion spacecraft, using a mockup of the vehicle at Johnson Space Center. Orion (officially Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a class of partially reusable space capsules to be used in NASA’s human spaceflight programs.
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