Station crew rotation

A station crew rotation mission takes a new crew to a space station and brings the previous one home, so the station is always occupied. People have lived aboard the International Space Station without a break since 2 November 2000. Today’s rotations use SpaceX’s Crew Dragon under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and Russian Soyuz flights also carry crews. In this list, Crew-6 launched in March 2023, Crew-12 in February 2026 and Crew-13 on 1 October 2026. Each flight joins an Expedition number, such as Expedition 74 or 75, and crews usually stay for several months before the next one arrives.

Events

1 October 2026

Crew-13
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, Sergey Teteryatnikov
Crew-13 overlapped with Crew-12 for a short handover. Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency flew as the first commercial crew astronaut from his agency, as CSA described it at the news conference, and it was Jessica Watkins' second Dragon flight.
3 videos
- NASA
1 October 2026

SpaceX Crew-13
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, Sergey Teteryatnikov
1 video
- NASA
26 August 2023

Crew-7
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, Konstantin Borisov
Four seats, four agencies. The webcast said Crew-7 was the first Dragon flight in which every seat was filled by an astronaut from a different partner agency: NASA, ESA, JAXA and Roscosmos.
2 videos
- SpaceX
2 March 2023

Crew-6
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg, Sultan Alneyadi, Andrey Fedyaev
1 video
- SpaceX
23 April 2021

Crew-2
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide, Thomas Pesquet
1 video
- Free Documentary – Space
20 November 1998

International Space Station
- Proton, Soyuz, Space Shuttle
The station is still in operation. Modules were built in Russia, the US and Europe, and the project grew out of a post-Cold War partnership. It is now due to be deorbited, with SpaceX named as the vehicle operator around 2030 in one video.
2 videos
- DW Documentary
- Curious Droid
Tiangong space station

The Tiangong space station, China's crewed orbital outpost, has been in orbit since 2021 and its mission is still in progress.
2 videos
- Astrum
- Mystral
Crew-12
- Crew Dragon, Falcon 9
- Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot
Sophie Adenot's epsilon mission set a record for the longest stay in space by a European astronaut, as ESA's welcome-home video puts it. This page covers the crew's last days: the handover to Crew-13, the undocking, the splashdown and the weeks that followed.
10 videos
- NASA
- European Space Agency, ESA