 The Soyuz was chosen as the ISS lifeboat during the development of the International Space Station, and has been one of the space taxis used by the international participants to this program.A Soyuz took Expedition 1, which included one U.S. astronaut in the year 2000.Previously the United States and Russia had collaborated on extended the "Mir" space station with the Shuttle-"Mir" program in the 1990s.