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iss065e006837 (April 27, 2021) --- The 11-member crew aboard the International Space Station is actually a combination of three different crews. In the back row (from left), are the SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts Shane Kimbrough of NASA, Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, and Megan McArthur from NASA. They arrived at the station on April 24. In the center, are NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, who rode the Soyuz MS-18 crew ship to the orbital lab on April 9. In the front row, are the SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Michael Hopkins, all from NASA, and Soichi Noguchi from JAXA. The Crew-1 quartet have been aboard the station since Nov. 16 and are nearing the end of their mission.