ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, first Expedition 66 commander, will hand over the International Space Station command to ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component was launched into orbit in 1998, with the first long-term residents arriving in November 2000. It has been inhabited continuously since that date. The last pressurised module was fitted in 2011, and an experimental inflatable space habitat was added …