Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 178 International Trailblazer. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast we bring in the experts,

scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know the coolest information

about what's going on in the world of human spaceflight. More than 20 years

ago on November 2, 2000, a crew of three space fairs arrived at the

International Space Station with a mission to bring the new orbital complex to life.

We call these missions expeditions,

and the International Space Station crew was expedition one.

The trio was NASA's William Shepard,

commander of expedition one, and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Criclev and

Yuri Gizenko, both seasoned veterans of long duration missions aboard the Russian space

station Mir that was in orbit at the time. These three spent 136 days aboard the space station

and set the course for what would be

an unbroken streak of human presence in space.

We often like to tout that if you're I guess at this point

younger than 20 you've never lived in a world where there haven't been humans in

space at any given point in your life. So we had a chance to chat with

Bill Shepard, the commander of Expedition 1, about what it took to get to this point last year around the date of the anniversary.

On this episode, we're bringing in a different perspective from Sergei Krikeliff, a decorated cosmonaut who was instrumental in US and Russian cooperation.

He paved the path for cooperative space shuttle missions and he was on both the first

crewed visit and the first long-term expedition

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