The International Space Station is the only permanent human space station to perform research work. The space crew Expedition 1 was the first group of astronauts to arrive at the International Space Station on November 2, 2000, the first step in the ISS 'long-term space plan. Currently on the station is the crew Expedition 65. Expedition 65 arrives at the station in April 2021 and is scheduled to return to Earth in October 2021. The space station is provided with the necessary supplies and equipment from Russian spacecraft Soyuz, Russian Progressive Transporter and US space shuttles (decommissioned in 2011). Currently the station can accommodate 3 people. Those who arrived at the first station were both astronauts from the US and Russian space programs. The German astronaut, Thomas Reiter, arrived at the station in the group of astronauts of Expedition 13 in July 2006, becoming the first person from another space agency to arrive at the station. The crew Expedition 16's crew represented all five space agencies, to strengthen the ISS project's collaboration. To date, the ISS has welcomed astronauts from 14 different countries, including five space tourists. First, station proposed to be named "Аlpha" but rejected by Russia because the Greek letter α was usually reserved for the first, while the first International Space Station was Russian Peace. When Roskosmos (Роскосмос, Federal Space Agency, Russia) proposed the name "Аtlant", it was rejected by the United States because of its confusion with the Space Shuttle Аtlantis.