10 Crew Members Are Currently Living on the ISS — Here's Who They Are

Right now, ten people are living and working 250 miles above your head aboard the International Space Station. That's the biggest crew the ISS has hosted in months, and it's the result of a Soyuz launch that docked on July 14, bringing three new crewmates to join the seven already on board.

Here's who's up there — and how you can watch the station they call home pass directly over your city tonight.

The Newest Arrivals

On July 14, a Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying three new crew members to the station:

• Anil Menon (NASA) — a flight surgeon and engineer on his first spaceflight
• Pyotr Dubrov (Roscosmos) — a veteran cosmonaut making his second trip to the ISS
• Anna Kikina (Roscosmos) — also on her second spaceflight, and one of the few women to have flown to the station

Their Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft docked at the Prichal module, and the trio will spend the next eight months aboard the station as part of Expedition 74/75.

The Crew That Was Already There

Joining them are seven crewmates who'd already been aboard for weeks or months, running experiments in microgravity and keeping the station's systems running:

• Jessica Meir (NASA)
• Jack Hathaway (NASA)
• Sophie Adenot (ESA) — France's contribution to the current crew
• Andrey Fedyaev (Roscosmos)
• Sergey Kud-Sverchkov (Roscosmos) — the outgoing station commander
• Sergei Mikaev (Roscosmos)
• Chris Williams (NASA)

A Full House — For Now

Ten crewmates is a lot for one space station, and it won't last. Kud-Sverchkov, Mikaev, and Williams are already packing up to return to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-28, wrapping up a mission that began back in late November 2025. Once they undock, the station will settle back into a steadier seven-person crew for the rest of the summer.

It's a good reminder that the ISS isn't some static object in the sky — it's a living, breathing outpost with people coming and going, running science experiments, and orbiting Earth roughly every 90 minutes.

Watch Them Fly Overhead Tonight

Every one of those ten crew members is circling the planet right now at about 17,500 mph. You don't need a telescope to see the station they're living on — just clear skies and the right timing.

Open OrbitMap's live 3D tracker to see exactly where the ISS is at this moment, and use the Next Pass feature to find out precisely when it'll be visible from your location. It shows up as one of the brightest, fastest-moving "stars" in the sky — and now you'll know exactly who's inside it.

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