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ISS 1st Crew: The Photo Album |
| In October 31, 2000 an international crew of three will begin living aboard the International Space Station, starting a permanent human presence aboard the outpost. |
| The crew has been in training for the mission since late 1996 and includes International Space Station Commander Bill Shepherd, a U.S. astronaut; Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko, a Russian cosmonaut; and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev, also a Russian cosmonaut. | ||
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William M. (Bill) ShepherdNASA Astronaut (Captain, USN) PERSONAL DATA: Born July 26, 1949, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, but considers Babylon, New York his hometown. Married to Beth Stringham of Houston, Texas. He enjoys sailing, swimming, and working in his garage. His mother, Mrs. Barbara Shepherd, resides in Bethesda, Maryland. His father, Mr. George R. Shepherd, is deceased. |
Yuri Pavlovich GidzenkoColonel, Air Force. Test Cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center PERSONAL DATA: Born March 26, 1962 in the village of Elanets, Nikolaev region. Married to Olga Vladimirovna Gidzenko, born in 1961. They have two sons, Sergei and Alexei. |
Sergei K. KrikalevRussian Cosmonaut PERSONAL DATA: Born August 27, 1958, in Leningrad, Russia, which has been renamed St. Petersburg. Married to Elena Terekhina of Samara, Russia. They have one daughter. He enjoys swimming, skiing, bicycle riding, aerobatic flying, and amateur radio operations, particularly from space. His parents, Konstantin and Nadia, reside in Leningrad, Russia. Her parents, Faina and Yuri, reside in Samara, Russia. |
| The first crew will spend five months aboard the International Space Station. When they arrive, the station will consist of three modules: the Russian Service Module, which will serve as living quarters and onboard control center for the early station; the U.S.-funded and Russian-built Zarya, a module that provides supplementary power and propulsion functions; and the U.S.-built Node 1, a connecting module that provides the attachment points for future U.S. segments. | ||
Mission Data
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crew's mission will be a flight test of the new station as they assist
with critical assembly activities from onboard. During their stay, three
Space Shuttle assembly missions will dock, expanding the station by
delivering the first truss-based U.S. solar arrays, the U.S. Laboratory
Module and the station's primary robotic arm, built by Canada. The crew will be launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan. They will return at the end of their mission aboard the Space Shuttle on assembly flight 6A, the mission that delivers the robotic arm. They will be relieved by a new crew of three that will be launched on the shuttle on flight 6A. The Soyuz spacecraft the first crew rides to orbit will remain docked with the station, providing an emergency return to Earth for crew members if needed. The Soyuz spacecraft attached to the station will be changed out with a fresh spacecraft about each six months to maintain the emergency crew return capability. |
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The first crew of the International Space Station
pose aboard a Black Sea freighter following water survival training recently. |
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From left, they are Flight Engineer and Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev; International Space Station Commander and U.S. Astronaut Bill Shepherd; and Soyuz Commander and Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko. | |
| Here is 1st ISS's Crew during a winter training near Star City |  |
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1st Crew Training |
On Oct. 16, the Expedition 1 crew visited the grave of Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to fly in space, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. Paying respects to Gagarin is customary in Russia prior to space flight. |  |
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