Amateur
   Radio  on the
         International
         Space
             Station

 

Expedition	Launch Mode	Launch Date	Commander	Flight Engineer-1	Flight Engineer-2
1	Soyuz	October 2000	Bill Shepherd KD5GSL	Sergei Krikalev U5MIR	Yuri Gidzenko, RK3DOG
2	Shuttle	March 2001	Yury Usachev RW3FU	James Voss (NA1SS)	Susan Helms KC7NHZ
3	Shuttle	August 2001	Frank Culbertson  KD5OPQ	Vladimir Dezhurov  RK3DUD	Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT
4	Shuttle	December 2001	Yury I. Onufrienko RK3DUO	Daniel W. Bursch  KD5PNU	Carl E. Walz KC5TIE
5	Shuttle	June 2002	Valery Korzun RZ3FK	Peggy Whitson KC5ZTD	Sergei Treschev RZ3FU
6	Shuttle	November 2002	Kenneth Bowersox KD5JBP	Donald Pettit KD5MDT	Nikolai Budarin RV3FB
7	Soyuz	April 2003	Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP	Ed Lu KC5WKJ
8	Soyuz	October 2003	Michael Foale KB5UAC	Alexander Kaleri U8MIR
9	Soyuz	March 2004	Gennady Padalka  RN3DT	Michael Fincke KE5AIT
10	Soyuz	October 2004	Leroy Chiao KE5BRW	Salizhan Sharipov (RS0ISS)
11	Soyuz	April 2005	Sergei Krikalev U5MIR	John Phillips KE5DRY
12	Soyuz	October 2005	Bill McArthur KC5ACR	Valeri Tokarev (RS0ISS)
13	Soyuz	March 2006	Pavel Vinogradov RV3BS	Jeff Williams KD5TVQ
13/14	Shuttle	July 2006			Thomas Reiter DF4TR
14	Soyuz	September 2006	Michael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK	Mikhail Tyurin RZ3FT
14/15	Shuttle  STS-116	December 2006			Sunita Williams KD5PLB
15	Soyuz	April 2007	Fyodor N. Yurchikhin RN3FI	Oleg V. Kotov
15/16	Shuttle STS-117	June 2007			Clayton Anderson KD5PLA
16	Soyuz	October 2007	Peggy Whitson KC5ZTD	Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP
16	Shuttle STS-120	October 2007			Daniel Tani KD5DXE
16	Shuttle STS-122	February 2008			Leopold Eyharts  KE5FNO
16/17	Shuttle STS-123	March 2008			Garrett Reisman  KE5HAE
17	Soyuz	April 2008	Sergey Volkov RU3DIS	Oleg Kononenko RN3DX
17/18	Shuttle STS-124	May 2008			Greg Chamitoff KD5PKZ
18	Soyuz	October  2008	Mike Fincke  KE5AIT	Yury Lonchakov RA3DT
18	Shuttle STS-126	November 2008			Sandra Magnus KE5FYE
18/19/20	Shuttle STS-119	March 2009			Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA
19/20	Soyuz	March 2009	Gennady Padalka RN3DT	Michael R. Barratt KD5MIJ
20/21	Soyuz	May 2009	Frank De Winne ON1DWN	Roman Romanenko	Robert Thirsk VA3CSA
20	Shuttle STS-127	July 2009			Timothy Kopra KE5UDN
20/21	Shuttle STS-128	August 2009			Nicole Stott KE5GJN
21/22	Soyuz	September 2009	Jeffrey Williams KD5TVQ	Maxim Suraev
22/23	Soyuz	December 2009	Oleg Kotov	Timothy Creamer KC5WKI	Soichi Noguchi KD5TVP
23/24	Soyuz	April 2010	Alexander Skvortsov	Mikhail Kornienko RN3BF	Tracy Caldwell KF5DBF
24/25	Soyuz	June 2010	Douglas Wheelock KF5BOC	Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI	Shannon Walker KD5DXB
25/26	Soyuz	October 2010	Scott Kelly	Alexander Kaleri U8MIR	Oleg Skripochka RN3FU
26/27	Soyuz	December 2010	Dimitri Kondratyev	Catherine Coleman KC5ZTH	Paolo Nespoli IZ0JPA
27/28	Soyuz	April 2011	Andrei Borisenko	Alexander Samokutyayev	Ronald Garan KF5GPO
28/29	Soyuz	June 2011	Michael Fossum KF5AQG	Sergei Volkov RU3DIS	Satoshi Furukawa KE5DAW
29/30	Soyuz	November 2011	Daniel Burbank KC5ZSX	Anton Shkaplerov	Anatoly Ivanishin
30/31	Soyuz	December 2011	Oleg Kononenko RN3DX	Donald Pettit KD5MDT	André Kuipers PI9ISS
31/32	Soyuz	May 2012	Gennady Padalka RN3DT	Sergei Revin RN3BS	Joseph Acaba KE5DAR
32/33	Soyuz	July 2012	Sunita Williams KD5PLB	Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP	Akihiko Hoshide KE5DNI
33/34	Soyuz	October 2012	Kevin Ford KF5GPP	Oleg Novitskiy	Evgeny Tarelkin
34/35	Soyuz	December 2012	Chris Hadfield KC5RNJ/VA3OOG	Roman Romanenko	Thomas Marshburn KE5HOC
35/36	Soyuz	March 2013	Pavel Vinogradov RV3BS	Chris Cassidy KF5KDR	Alexander Misurkin
36/37	Soyuz	May 2013	Maxim Suraev	Karen Nyberg	Luca Parmitano KF5KDP
37/38	Soyuz	September 2013	Oleg Kotov	Sergey Ryazansky	Michael Hopkins KF5LJG
38/39	Soyuz	November 2013	Koichi Wakata KC5ZTA	Richard Mastracchio KC5ZTE	Mikhail Tyurin RZ3FT
39/40	Soyuz	March 2014	Steven Swanson	Aleksandr Skvortsov	Oleg Artemyev
40/41	Soyuz	May 2014	Maksim Surayev	Gregory Wiseman KF5LKT	Alexander Gerst KF5ONO
41/42	Soyuz	September 2014	Barry Wilmore	Aleksandr Samokutyayev	Yelena Serova
42/43	Soyuz	November 2014	Sergei Zalyotin	Samantha Cristoforetti  IZ0UDF	Terry Virts
43/44	Soyuz	March 2015	Yuri Lochakov RA3DT	Aleksei Ovchinin	Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS

 

 

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More Information about Russian amateurs in the space program

In Russia there are four classes of  radio amateurs. The highest is first class. Their call sign has 5 characters.
Sergey Samburov RV3DR
Sergei Treschev RZ3FU
Valeri Korzun RZ3FK
Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI
Yury Lonchakov RA3DT
Nikolai Budarin RV3FB
Alexsandr Kaleri U8MIR
Sergey N Revin RN3BS
Michail B Kornienko RN3BF
Oleg D. Kononenko RN3DX
Gennady I. Padalka RN3DT

For Second Class licences the call sign has 6 characters.
Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP

The lowest class allows the operator to carry out conversations from a board the ISS in VHF/UHF only .

The following cosmonauts use the shared radio station RS0ISS which has a first class license (based on  the chief of the station (RV3DR)).

Sergey Zalyotin (op. RS0ISS)
Valery Tokarev (op.RS0ISS)
Salizhan S. Sharipov (op.RS0ISS)

The call sign of the PMS mailbox RS0ISS-1