| Last Year | Manned Spaceflight Chronology Index |
| Flight | Launch | Landing | Name | Country | Parameters | |
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| STS-122 | February 7, 2008 (19:45 GMT) |
February 20, 2008 (14:07 GMT) |
Commander: Stephen Frick (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16) |
USA | M | Perigee: 332 km Apogee: 339 km Inclination: 51.6° 3 spacewalks 202 orbits |
| Pilot: Alan Poindexter (1st Flight) (NASA Group 17) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
67th Landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 1: Leland Melvin (1st Flight) (NASA Group 17) |
USA | M | ||
| Mission Specialist 2: Rex Walheim (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Hans Schlegel (2nd Flight) (EAC Group) (NASA Group 17) |
Germany | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (29th Mission) |
Docked with ISS February 9, 2008 (17:17 GMT) (PMA-2) |
Undocked from ISS February 18, 2008 (09:24 GMT) (PMA-2) |
Mission Specialist 4: Stanley Love (1st Flight) (NASA Group 17) |
USA | M | Time 12 days 18 hours 22 minutes |
| ISS 16 Flight Engineer 2: Léopold Eyharts (2nd Flight) (EAC Group) (NASA Group 17) (Down - STS-123) (48 days 4 hours 20 minutes) |
France | M | ||||
| Backup ISS Crew 16: Frank De Winne | Belgium | M | ||||
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| STS-123 | March 11, 2008 (06:28 GMT) |
March 27, 2008 (00:39 GMT) |
Commander: Dominic Gorie (4th Flight) (NASA Group 15) |
USA | M | Perigee: 400 km Apogee: 400 km Inclination: 51.6° 5 spacewalks 249 orbits |
| Pilot: Gregory Harold Johnson (1st Flight) (NASA Group 17) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
68th Landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 1: Robert Behnken (1st Flight) (NASA Group 18) |
USA | M | ||
| Mission Specialist 2: Michael Foreman (1st Flight) (NASA Group 17) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Takao Doi (2nd Flight) (NASDA Group 1) (NASA Group 15) |
Japan | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) (21st Mission) |
Docked with ISS March 13, 2008 (03:49 GMT) (PMA-2) |
Undocked from ISS March 25, 2008 (00:25 GMT) (PMA-2) |
Mission Specialist 4: Richard Linnehan (4th Flight) (NASA Group 14) |
USA | M | Time 15 days 18 hours 11 minutes |
| ISS 16 Flight Engineer 2: Garrett Reisman (1st Flight) (NASA Group 17) (Down - STS-124) (95 days 8 hours 47 minutes) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup ISS Crew 16: Timothy Kopra | USA | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TMA-12 (7K-STMA #222) |
April 8, 2008 (11:16 GMT) |
October 24, 2008 (03:37 GMT) |
Commander: Sergei Volkov (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 12) |
Russia | M | Perigee: 350 km Apogee: 350 km Inclination: 51.6° 2 spacewalks 3,131 orbits |
| Flight Engineer 1: Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (1st Flight) (MKS - TsSKB Detachment) |
Russia | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
89 km N of Arkalyk (50° 5' N, 67° 13' E) |
Commercial Cosmonaut: Yi So-yeon (1st Flight) (South Korean Cosmonaut) (Down - Soyuz TMA-11) (10 days 21 hours 14 minutes) |
South Korea | F | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-FG |
Docked with ISS April 10, 2008 (12:57 GMT) (Pirs) |
Undocked from ISS October 24, 2008 (00:16 GMT) (Pirs) |
Backup Crew: Maksim Surayev | Russia | M | Time 198 days 16 hours 20 minutes |
| Backup Crew: Oleg Skripochka | Russia | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Ko San | South Korea | M | ||||
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| STS-124 | May 31, 2008 (21:02 GMT) |
June 14, 2008 (15:15 GMT) |
Commander: Mark Kelly (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 16) |
USA | M | Perigee: 350 km Apogee: 350 km Inclination: 51.6° 3 spacewalks 217 orbits |
| Pilot: Kenneth Ham (1st Flight) (NASA Group 17) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
69th Landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 1: Karen Nyberg (1st Flight) (NASA Group 18) |
USA | F | ||
| Mission Specialist 2: Ronald Garan (1st Flight) (NASA Group 18) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Michael Fossum (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 17) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (35th Mission) |
Docked with ISS June 2, 2008 (18:03 GMT) (PMA-2) |
Undocked from ISS June 11, 2008 (11:42 GMT) (PMA-2) |
Mission Specialist 4: Akihiko Hoshide (1st Flight) (NASDA Group 4) (NASA Group 19) |
Japan | M | Time 13 days 18 hours 13 minutes |
| ISS 17 Flight Engineer 2: Gregory Chamitoff (1st Flight) (NASA Group 17) (Down - STS-126) (Currently in orbit) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup ISS Crew 17: Timothy Kopra | USA | M | ||||
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| Shenzhou 7 | September 25, 2008 (13:10 GMT) |
September 28, 2008 (09:38 GMT) |
Commander: Zhai Zhigang (1st Flight) (China Group 1) |
PR China | M | Perigee: 330 km Apogee: 340 km Inclination: 42.4° 1 spacewalk 45 orbits |
| Orbital Module Astronaut: Liu Boming (1st Flight) (China Group 1) |
PR China | M | ||||
| Descent Module Monitor Astronaut: Jing Haipeng (1st Flight) (China Group 1) |
PR China | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Long March-2F |
Launch Pad 1 Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center, China |
Inner Mongolia | Backup Crew: Chen Quan | PR China | M | Time 2 days 20 hours 28 minutes |
| Backup Crew: Fei Junlong | PR China | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Nie Haisheng | PR China | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TMA-13 (7K-STMA #223) |
October 12, 2008 (07:01 GMT) |
April 5, 2009 (Scheduled) |
Commander: Michael Fincke (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16) |
USA | M | Perigee: 350 km Apogee: 350 km Inclination: 51.6° |
| Flight Engineer 1 (Soyuz Commander): Yuri Lonchakov (3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 12) |
Russia | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Currently in orbit | Commercial Cosmonaut: Richard Garriott (1st Flight) (Space Adventures Group 6) (Down - Soyuz TMA-12) (11 days 20 hours 35 minutes) |
USA | M | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-FG |
Docked with ISS October 14, 2008 (08:26 GMT) (Zarya) |
Undocks from ISS April 5, 2009 (Scheduled) |
Backup Crew: Michael Barratt | USA | M | Currently in orbit |
| Backup Crew: Gennadi Padalka | Russia | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Nik Halik | Australia | M | ||||
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| STS-126 | November 15, 2008 (00:55 GMT) |
November 29, 2008 (Scheduled) |
Commander: Christopher Ferguson (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 17) |
USA | M | Perigee: 349 km Apogee: 354 km Inclination: 51.6° 2 spacewalks |
| Pilot: Eric Boe (1st Flight) (NASA Group 18) |
USA | M | ||||
| Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
Currently in orbit | Mission Specialist 1: Donald Pettit (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16) |
USA | M | ||
| Mission Specialist 2: Stephen Bowen (1st Flight) (NASA Group 18) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) (22nd Mission) |
Docked with ISS November 16, 2008 (22:01 GMT) (PMA-2) |
Undocks from ISS November 27, 2008 (Scheduled) (PMA-2) |
Mission Specialist 4: Robert Shane Kimbrough (1st Flight) (NASA Group 19) |
USA | M | Currently in orbit |
| ISS 17 Flight Engineer 2: Sandra Magnus (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 16) (Down - STS-119) (Currently in orbit) |
USA | F | ||||
| Backup ISS Crew 17: Nicole Stott | USA | F | ||||
| Last Year | Manned Spaceflight Chronology Index |
Updated - November 20, 2008