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  1. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Public domain

    Crew-7

    The first Dragon crew drawn from four space agencies

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    Crew-7 launched on 26 August 2023 from Kennedy Space Center on a Falcon 9, carrying Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, Andreas Mogensen of ESA, Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos. Their Dragon Endurance docked autonomously with the International Space Station on 27 August.

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  2. Photo: NASA/Crew of STS-132 / Public domain

    International Space Station

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    The International Space Station program began in 1998 with the launch of the Zarya module, the first piece of a station assembled from Russian, American and European parts. The facts list its outcome as in progress, and plans now call for it to be deorbited.

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  3. Photo: NASA / Public domain

    International Space Station deorbit

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    • How the ISS Will Be Destroyed at Point Nemo in 2030

      The B1M explains how the International Space Station was built from Zarya in 1998 onward and why it is planned to be brought down in 2030 by a specially modified SpaceX Dragon, ending in the ocean…

      Published 26 Mar 2025

  4. Photo: NASA Kennedy Space Center / NASA/John Kraus / Public domain

    Crew-12

    237 days on the International Space Station

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    Crew-12 was a NASA and SpaceX crew rotation mission: Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev spent 237 days in space, 235 of them docked to the International Space Station. Their Dragon Freedom capsule undocked on 7 October 2026 and splashed down off California the next day.

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