What's new?

March 18, 2010:
Landing of ISS Expedition 21/22. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
December 01, 2009:
Landing of ISS Expedition 20/21. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
November 27, 2009:
Landing of STS-129. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
October 11, 2009:
Landing of ISS Expedition 19/20. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
September 12, 2009:
Landing of STS-128. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
July 31, 2009:
Landing of STS-127. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
May 24, 2009:
Landing of STS-125. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
April 08, 2009:
Landing of ISS Expedition 18. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
March 28, 2009:
Landing of STS-119. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
November 30, 2008:
Landing of STS-126. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
October 24, 2008:
Landing of ISS Expedition 17. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
September 28, 2008:
Landing of Shenzhou VII. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
August 28, 2008:
New photo of the Soyuz 31 backup crew.
Thanks to Space Service International the copyright holder.
 
June 14, 2008:
Landing of STS-124. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
April 19, 2008:
Landing of ISS Expedition 16. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
February 24, 2008:
Many crew portraits are in a hi res version available now.
 
February 20, 2008:
Landing of STS-122. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
Official NASA portraits of Teacher-in-Space finalists Kathleen Beres and Robert Foerster are added.
 
February 09, 2008:
New section: Statistical tables about female astronauts and cosmonauts.
 
February 08, 2008:
Official NASA portraits of Teacher-in-Space finalists Judith Garcia, Margaret "Peggy" Lathlaen, Michael Metcalf, Richard "Dick" Methia and Nancy "Niki" Wenger are added.
 
October 21, 2007:
Landing of ISS Expedition 15. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
August 17, 2007:
New section: Cancelled spaceflights.
 
August 02, 2007:
A few statistical tables are as PDF files available:
- Resident Crews of the International Space Station (Overview)
- Resident Crews of the MIR (Overview)
- Resident Crews of Salyut (Overview)
- Astronauts and Cosmonauts (sorted by "Time in Space")
 
July 25, 2007:
New portraits in the Russian Sokol space suit:
Clayton Anderson, Mikhail Korniyenko, Sandra Magnus and Roman Romanenko.
 
April 21, 2007:
Landing of ISS Expedition 14. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
March 17, 2007:
A lot of crew photos are in a larger size.
 
March 04, 2007:
Several new crew photos of the Interkosmos missions.
 
January 07, 2007:
Photos of backup / double crews are added to the mission reports.
 
November 18, 2006:
More detailed maps for the Soyuz landings in the Dzheskasgan area.
 
November 08, 2006:
The official portraits of the Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng are added.
 
October 12, 2006:
Russia selected 7 new cosmonaut:
Aleksandr Misurkin, Oleg Novitsky, Aleksei Ovchinin, Maksim, Ponomaryov, Sergei Ryzhikov, Yelena Serova and Nikolai Tikhonov.
 
October 08, 2006:
New section: Salyut expeditions.
 
October 05, 2006:
More detailed maps for the Soyuz landings in the Arkalyk area.
 
September 29, 2006:
Landing of ISS Expedition 13. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
August 11, 2006:
Backup / double crews are added to the mission spaceflight reports.
 
June 25, 2006:
"Crew seating arrangement" complete (see "spaceflights").
 
June 05, 2006:
New statistical table: Active Astronauts and Cosmonauts.
 
April 27, 2006:
Better / new portrait of 10 astronauts:
John-David Bartoe, William Butterworth, Stephen Cunningham, Gregory Jarvis, John Konrad, Fred Leslie, Ronald Parise, George Simon, James Taylor and Charles Walker.
Thanks to Ed Hengeveld for sending his wonderful new CD's.
 
April 14, 2006:
New portrait of Brewster Shaw.
With friendly permission of The Boeing Company.
 
April 09, 2006:
Landing of ISS Expedition 12. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
March 03, 2006:
New portrait of former astronaut and now NASA JSC director Michael Coats.
 
February 07, 2006:
New section: suborbital spaceflights.
 
January 28, 2006:
Cosmonaut candidates from Malaysia are added.
 
January 22, 2006:
New portraits of Michael Hamel, Gary Payton and Lawrence Skantze.
 
December 02, 2005:
Five years SPACEFACTS.
 
November 24, 2005:
Personal patches of Aleksandr Serebrov, Anatoli Soloviyov, Gennadi Strekalov, Norman Thagard, Vasili Tsibliyev and Pavel Vinogradov added.
Thanks to Space Service International for sending.
 
November 12, 2005:
A lot of better US crew photos.
Thanks to Ed Hengeveld for sending his beautiful CD.
Many US mission patches replaced by original NASA files.
 
November 02, 2005:
Better portrait of Sergei Kostenko.
Thanks to Space Service International for sending.
 
October 20, 2005:
New portrait of former cosmonaut Lev Smirenny.
Thanks to Yves Dejardin for sending.
 
October 11, 2005:
Photos of the Chinese taikonauts Fei Junlong, Jing Haipen, Liu Buoming and Wu Jie are added.
 
October 11, 2005:
Landing of ISS Expedition 11. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
 
October 09, 2005:
New portrait of former astronaut Kevin Chilton.
 
September 30, 2005:
New portrait of cosmonaut Boris Volynov.
 
September 13, 2005:
New portrait of taikonaut Liwei Yang.
 
August 13, 2005:
Several photos of early Soyuz crews.
With friendly permission from the photo archives of Space Service International. For further information please contact Tasillo Römisch.
 
August 10, 2005:
New section: The expeditions to the MIR space station.
 
August 09, 2005:
Landing of STS-114. Biographies and statistical tables are updated.
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