humans first occupied the international space station in 1967.
humans first occupied the international space station in 1967.
when did humans first occupy the international space station?
1967
the first resident crew, expedition 1, arrived in november 2000 on soyuz tm-31. at the end of the first day on the station, astronaut bill shepherd requested the use of the radio call sign ""alpha"", which he and cosmonaut krikalev preferred to the more cumbersome ""international space station"". the name ""alpha"" had previously been used for the station in the early 1990s, and its use was authorised for the whole of expedition 1. shepherd had been advocating the use of a new name to project managers for some time. referencing a naval tradition in a pre-launch news conference he had said: "for thousands of years, humans have been going to sea in ships. people have designed and built these vessels, launched them with a good feeling that a name will bring good fortune to the crew and success to their voyage." yuri semenov, the president of russian space corporation energia at the time, disapproved of the name ""alpha"" as he felt that "mir" was the first modular space station, so the names ""beta"" or ""mir" 2" for the iss would have been more fitting.
international space station
"note:" u.s. space shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the russian soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more u.s. short-term human visits until the space shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. since 2011, soyuz has been the sole means of human transport to the iss, delivering mostly long-term crew. russian cargo deliveries have been exclusively carried out by the unmanned missions of progress spacecraft, requiring fewer human spaceflights.









































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bullet::::- list of international space station crew









































bullet::::- list of international space station visitors









































bullet::::- list of international space station spacewalks
list of human spaceflights to the international space station