Expedition 20 will mark the start of six-person crew operations aboard the International Space Station. All five of the international partner agencies – NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) – will be represented on orbit for the first time.

Launch Vehicle:
Soyuz TMA-15

Launch:
May 27, 2009
6:34 a.m. EDT

Docking:
May 29, 2009
8:15 a.m. EDT

Landing:
Nov. 2009