- Oleg Kononenko — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Nikolai Chub — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Tracy Caldwell Dyson — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Matthew Dominick — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Michael Barratt — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Jeanette Epps — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Alexander Grebenkin — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Butch Wilmore — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Sunita Williams — ISS — 10 days tracked
- Li Guangsu — Tiangong — 10 days tracked
- Li Cong — Tiangong — 10 days tracked
- Ye Guangfu — Tiangong — 10 days tracked
There is a number that changes quietly and means something: how many humans are off the planet right now. Usually it is around ten — a station crew here, a visiting mission there — and occasionally it jumps when a crew handover or a private flight puts two spacecraft in orbit at once. This page answers it live: who, where, and for how long.
What does the roster show for each person?
Name, the vehicle or station they are aboard, and their cumulative time in orbit on the current mission. The board separates crews by platform — the ISS, Tiangong, and any free-flying mission — because “in space” covers very different addresses these days.
Why does the count change so often now?
Twenty years ago the answer was almost always three — one ISS expedition crew. Today there is a commercial station rotation cadence, Chinese taikonauts on a permanent Tiangong presence, Soyuz and Crew Dragon handovers every few months, plus suborbital and orbital private missions. The number crossed twenty briefly during overlapping flights, and those spikes are exactly when this page is worth checking.
Where does the data come from?
Public mission manifests and live crew tracking — the same sources space agencies and journalists use. When a crew docks, boards, or lands, the roster updates.
Is there a point beyond curiosity?
It is the simplest possible dashboard for the state of human spaceflight. One glance tells you whether we are in a quiet expedition period or mid-handover chaos — and every name on it is a person currently falling around the planet at 27,000 km/h.
Open People in Space
→ logicencoder.com/people-in-space/
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