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Loading contentSoyuz is a family of expendable launch vehicles operated by Roscosmos that has long carried crews and cargo to orbit, including to the International Space Station.
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The Soyuz is a human-rated member of the R-7 rocket lineage — the most-launched family in history — which has carried crews and cargo to orbit for over five decades.
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Roscosmos is the state corporation responsible for the space program of the Russian Federation.
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ISS Expedition 2 was the second resident crew, comprising Yury Usachev, Susan Helms, and James Voss.
ISS Expedition 3 was crewed by Frank Culbertson, Vladimir Dezhurov, and Mikhail Tyurin.
ISS Expedition 4 was crewed by Yury Onufrienko, Carl Walz, and Daniel Bursch.
ISS Expedition 5 was crewed by Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson, and Sergei Treschev.
ISS Expedition 6 was crewed by Kenneth Bowersox, Nikolai Budarin, and Donald Pettit; the crew returned aboard a Soyuz after the Columbia accident grounded the Shuttle.
ISS Expedition 7, a two-person caretaker crew of Yuri Malenchenko and Edward Lu, kept the station operating after the Columbia accident.
ISS Expedition 8 was a two-person crew of Michael Foale and Alexander Kaleri.
ISS Expedition 9 was crewed by Gennady Padalka and Michael Fincke.
ISS Expedition 10 was a two-person crew of Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov.
The most-launched rocket lineage in history — descended from the R-7, the world's first ICBM (1957), and continued today by the crew-carrying Soyuz.
The historic Baikonur pad that launched Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin, and for decades the departure point for Soyuz crews to orbit.
The RP-1/LOX gas-generator engines of the R-7/Soyuz core and strap-on boosters — first flown in 1957 and, in evolved form, still launching crews to orbit.
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