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MOSCOW, April 12 280 citizens from 23 countries managed to visit the International Space Station: the largest number of ISS guests were among US, Russian and Japanese passport holders, according to data from the Roscosmos and NASA agencies, which were studied.
Thus, 167 Americans visited the ISS. The largest number of flights is by astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, who visited the station five times. His colleagues had four visits each: Stephen Bowen, Mark Kelly, Richard Mastracchio, Frederick Sterkow, Peggy Whitson and Jeffrey Williams.
Russia is in second place in terms of the number of citizens on the ISS. According to Roscosmos data for November last year, 59 people flew to the station, and at the beginning of March this year, another Russian, cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, arrived at the station on the SpaceX Crew-8 spacecraft. Thus, 60 of our compatriots checked into the ISS. At the same time, three cosmonauts, according to Roscosmos, managed to visit the ISS five times – Yuri Malenchenko, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kononenko.
Japan is in third place in the ranking – 11 of its citizens visited the International Space Station. Also in the top five were Canada (nine people) and Italy (six people). In addition, four people each with French and German passports visited the ISS. 
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Sweden each sent two people to the station. It was also visited by one citizen each from Brazil, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Israel, South Africa, Turkey, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Malaysia, Belarus and Denmark.
On April 12, Russia celebrates Cosmonautics Day, established in honor of the world's first human flight into space, performed by a citizen of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin on the Vostok spacecraft.
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