High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Expedition 1, or Expedition One, was the first long-duration stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The three-person crew stayed aboard the station for 136 days, from November 2000 to March 2001. It was the beginning of an uninterrupted human presence on the station which still continues, as of July 2011. Expedition 2, which also had three crew members, immediately followed Expedition 1.