Expedition 67 was the 67th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station. The expedition began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-19 on 30 March 2022[1] with NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn taking over as ISS commander.[2][3] Initially, the expedition consisted of Marshburn and his three SpaceX Crew-3 crewmates Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov, who launched aboard Soyuz MS-21 on March 18, 2022 and transferred from Expedition 66 alongside the Crew-3 astronauts.[4] However, continued international collaboration has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia.[5]

Expedition 67
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Mission typeLong-duration expedition
OperatorNASA / Roscosmos
Mission duration183 days and 12 minutes
Expedition
Space stationInternational Space Station
Began30 March 2022, 07:21:03 UTC
Ended29 September 2022, 07:34 UTC
Arrived aboardSpaceX Crew-3
Soyuz MS-21
SpaceX Crew-4
Soyuz MS-22
Departed aboardSpaceX Crew-3
Soyuz MS-21
Crew
Crew size7-11
Members
EVAs5
EVA duration33 hours 12 minutes

Expedition 67 mission patch

Expedition 67 crew portrait
The crews from Expedition 67 crew (top and bottom row and one on center left) with non expedition Axiom Mission-1 crew (remaining in center row).

During Expedition 67, the space station was also visited by the crew of Axiom Mission 1, a space tourist mission that brought three spaceflight participants to the station on April 9, 2022 along with former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, who had previously commanded the station during Expedition 14. They departed the ISS on April 25, 2022.

Crew-3 departed on May 5, 2022[6] and was replaced by SpaceX Crew-4, which ferried NASA astronauts Kjell N. Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, as well as ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, to the station.[7] Before departing, Marshburn handed command of the station over to Artemyev. Starliner visited the station in May for the first time in May 2022 during OFT-2 mission. At the end of Expedition 67, they remained on the ISS as part of Expedition 68 in September 2022.

Crew

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Flight Astronaut First part
(30 March-27 April 2022)
Second part
(27 April–5 May 2022)
Third part
(5 May-21 September 2022)
Fourth part
(21–29 September 2022)
Soyuz MS-21   Oleg Artemyev, Roscosmos
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer Commander
  Denis Matveev, Roscosmos
Only spaceflight
Flight Engineer
  Sergey Korsakov, Roscosmos
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer
SpaceX Crew-3   Raja Chari, NASA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer Off Station
  Thomas Marshburn,[8] NASA
Third spaceflight
Commander Off Station
  Matthias Maurer, ESA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer Off Station
  Kayla Barron, NASA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer Off Station
SpaceX Crew-4   Kjell N. Lindgren, NASA
Second spaceflight
Off Station Flight Engineer
  Bob Hines, NASA
First spaceflight
Off Station Flight Engineer
  Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA
Second spaceflight
Off Station Flight Engineer
  Jessica Watkins, NASA
First spaceflight
Off Station Flight Engineer
Soyuz MS-22   Sergey Prokopyev, Roscosmos
Second spaceflight
Off Station Flight Engineer
  Dmitry Petelin, Roscosmos
First spaceflight
Off Station Flight Engineer
  Francisco Rubio, NASA
First spaceflight
Off Station Flight Engineer

Notes

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  1. ^ The European portion of SpaceX Crew-3 is called Cosmic Kiss, which is headed by Matthias Maurer.
  2. ^ The European portion of SpaceX Crew-4 is called Minerva, which is headed by Samantha Cristoforetti.

References

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  1. ^ "Soyuz MS-19 Landing". Archived from the original on 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  2. ^ "Flight crew assignments". forum.nasaspaceflight.com.
  3. ^ "NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Record-Setting US Astronaut Return". 24 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Новости. Утверждены экипажи МКС на 2022-2024 годы". www.roscosmos.ru.
  5. ^ Witze, Alexandra (11 March 2022). "Russia's invasion of Ukraine is redrawing the geopolitics of space". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00727-x. PMID 35277688. S2CID 247407886. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  6. ^ "CREW-3 MISSION - SpaceX - Updates". www.spacex.com. Archived from the original on 2021-11-12.
  7. ^ Potter, Sean (November 16, 2021). "NASA Assigns Astronaut Jessica Watkins to NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 Mission". NASA.
  8. ^ "NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Record-Setting US Astronaut Return". 24 March 2022.