ISS Expedition 65 patch, 2021

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet (FR) is assigned to fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, on its second crewed operational flight called Crew-2, scheduled for launch in early 2021. He will fly with NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.

Expedition 65 is scheduled to begin in April 2021 with the undocking of Soyuz MS-17, with Crew-2 members transferring from Expedition 64, with Hoshide taking command of the Station for the increment. They will be joined by cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and Sergei Korsakov, who will launch on Soyuz MS-18.