Before Crew-7 astronauts return to Earth, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will hand over command of the International Space Station to ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko.
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 …