Crews named for future ISS missions


15-017NASA and its International Space Station partners have announced the crew members for three upcoming missions to the space station during 2016 and 2017.

Expedition 48:

Jeff Williams, NASA
Alexey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
Oleg Skripochka, Roscosmos
Kate Rubins, NASA
Anatoly Ivanishin, Roscosmos
Takuya Onishi, JAXA

Expedition 49:

Anatoly Ivanishin, Roscosmos
Kate Rubins, NASA
Takuya Onishi, JAXA
Shane Kimbrough, NASA
Andrey Borisenko, Roscosmos
Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos

Expedition 50:

Shane Kimbrough, NASA
Andrey Borisenko, Roscosmos
Sergey Ryzhikov, Roscosmos
Peggy Whitson, NASA
Oleg Novitskiy, Roscosmos
Thomas Pesquet, ESA

For more information about the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station.

This article appeared in the 10th issue of RocketSTEM.

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