Soyuz MS-17
Soyuz MS-17
Launch Date
October 14, 2020
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
3
Soyuz MS-17
Soyuz MS-17
Launch Date
October 14, 2020
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
3
Overview
Soyuz MS-17 ferried three international crew members to the Space Station, two Russians and one American. This was the first of two flights to expand the Station's permanent crew size to seven people.
Nations
Russia
Russia
United States of America
United States of America
Agencies
Roscosmos
Roscosmos
NASA
NASA
Crafts
Soyuz
Soyuz
Soyuz is a human carrier capsule built and operated by Russia that can take up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded many times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crew vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.