Expedition 1
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Key facts
- Mission type
- Long-duration expedition
- Mission duration
- 136 days, 14 hours, 7 minutes (at ISS) 140 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes (launch to landing)
- Space station
- International Space Station
- Began
- 2 November 2000, 10:23 ( 2000-11-02UTC10:23Z ) UTC
- Ended
- 19 March 2001, 00:30 ( 2001-03-19UTC00:31Z ) UTC
- Arrived aboard
- Soyuz TM-31
- Departed aboard
- STS-102
- Members
- William Shepherd Yuri Gidzenko Sergei Krikalev
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- Duration
- 12181135
- Image
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- start time
- 2000-11-02
- end time
- 2001-03-19
- Commons category
- ISS Expedition 1
- orbits completed
- 2207
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Expedition 1 was the first long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The three-person crew stayed aboard the station for 136 days, from 2 November 2000 to 19 March 2001. It was the beginning of an uninterrupted human presence on the station which continues as of 2026.
The official start of the expedition occurred when the crew docked to the station on 2 November 2000, aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-31, which had launched on 31 October 2000 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. During their mission, the Expedition 1 crew activated various systems on board the station, unpacked equipment that had been delivered, and hosted three visiting Space Shuttle crews and two uncrewed Russian Progress resupply vehicles. The crew was very busy throughout the mission, which was declared a success.