ISS: International Space Station crews and images from space
At Johnson Space Center: From left, Sergei Krikalev; William Shepherd, mission commander; Yuri Gidzenko. Expedition 1 was the first crew to complete a long-duration stay on the ISS -- 136 days -- and marked the beginning of uninterrupted human presence on the station. (NASA)
The Soyuz launch vehicle was moved into a vertical position for its launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Expedition 1 blasted off on Oct. 31, 2000. (NASA)
Sergei Krikalev takes photos inside the Zvezda Service Module a few days after the arrival of the International Space Station’s first crew. It was one of the first film images released from the Expedition 1 crew. (NASA)
The Upsala Glacier in Argentina is featured in this image from the space station. (NASA)
Space Shuttle Endeavour approaches the space station, taken by an Expedition 1 crew member. (NASA)
Eating fresh fruit. From left: Yuri Gidzenko, Bill Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev. (NASA)
Feet anchored in a tunnel hatchway, Sergei Krikalev works in the Zvezda Service Module. (NASA)
The space shuttle Atlantis is shown over a mountainous coastline, taken during Expedition 1. (NASA)
Susan Helms and Yury Usachev, speaking into a microphone. (NASA)
Yury Usachev shows how to shave in space. (NASA)
Susan Helms, Yury Usachev and James Voss share a meal at the table in the Zvezda Service Module. (NASA)
The faces of Susan Helms and James Voss are seen through a window in the station’s Destiny laboratory. (NASA)
Cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov, left, and Mikhail Tyurin and astronaut Frank Culbertson, expedition commander. (NASA)
Astronaut Scott Parazynski was photographed by an Expedition 2 crew member during a space walk. (NASA)
Three from Expedition 2 and seven from STS-100 go Hawaiian on the space shuttle. The STS-100 mission, flown by Endeavour, installed the robotic Canadarm2. (NASA)
The Canadian-built space station robotic arm transferred its launch cradle to Endeavour’s Canadian-built robotic arm. Canadian mission specialist astronaut Chris Hadfield, a later commander of an ISS expedition, was at the controls in the Endeavour. (NASA)
The Phantom Torso was designed to measure the effects of radiation on internal organs. The torso was equivalent in height and weight to an average adult male and contained radiation detectors that measured how much radiation the brain, thyroid, stomach, colon, and heart and lung area received daily. (NASA)
A photo of the station taken from the shuttle Atlantis. (NASA)
Mikhail Tyurin gives Frank Culbertson a trim. Culbertson holds a vacuum device the crew fashioned to pull in freshly cut, floating hair. (NASA)
Category 5 super typhoon Botha was captured in this image by a member of the ISS Expedition 34 crew on Dec. 2, 2012. (NASA)
Daniel W. Bursch, left; Yuri I. Onufrienko, mission commander; and Carl E. Walz in the ISS Destiny laboratory. (NASA)
The space station, as seen through the window of Endeavour. (NASA)
Expedition 4 took this image of Mount Everest. (NASA)
Expedition 5 crew Valery G. Korzun, left, Sergei Y. Treschev and Peggy A. Whitson perform maintenance on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module. (NASA)
The payload bay and vertical stabilizer of the space shuttle Atlantis, docked with the International Space Station. (NASA)
Expedition 5 snapped this photo of Mt. Etna erupting. The 11,000-foot volcano is on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. (NASA)
Expedition 6 crew members in Russian Sokol suits. From left, Nikolai M. Budarin, Donald R. Pettit and Kenneth D. Bowersox, mission commander. (NASA)
View of a bubble formed as a result of a Zeolite Crystal Growth experiment in the Destiny laboratory. This experiment has shown that the bubbles could cause larger number of smaller deformed crystals to grow. (NASA)
