Space station partner agencies announced Friday the crews who will live and work aboard the orbiting lab in 2013 and 2014, including the outpost's first Japanese commander and the first NASA astronaut from the class of 2009 assigned to fly in space.

The announcement includes members of five long-term space station crews from early 2013 through early 2014.

Veteran Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata will command the space station for about two months between March and May of 2014. Wakata has spent a total of 159 days in orbit on two shuttle missions and as a space station flight engineer in 2009.

Before Wakata's assignment to command the Expedition 39 crew, NASA flight engineer Michael Hopkins will serve on the Expedition 37 and 38 crews from September 2013 through March 2014.

Hopkins is the first member of the NASA astronaut class of 2009 to be assigned to a space crew. The Missouri native is an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, a former test pilot and aerospace engineer.

The 2009 class comprised nine U.S. astronauts and five candidates from Japan and Canada.

A member the European Space Agency's newest class of astronauts was also assigned to the station's Expedition 36 and 37 crews in 2013. Luca Parmitano of Italy will spend about six months as a flight engineer aboard the complex.

Other U.S. astronauts receiving flight assignments include Chris Cassidy, Karen Nyberg and Richard Mastracchio. Russian cosmonauts include Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and Maxim Suraev.

The Expedition 35 crew, which was previously announced, will be led by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Joining Hadfield will be NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko.

All of the station crews will launch and land aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan.