Expedition 72 Crew Images: April 4-9, 2025 | International Space Station
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers poses for a portrait inside the seven window cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world," as the orbital outpost soared 263 miles above Russia near the Kazakhstan border.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers poses for a portrait in front of a window inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit watches as an Astrobee robotic free-flyer outfitted with tentacle-like grippers grapples a "capture cube" inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit prepares to deploy a "capture cube" as an Astrobee robotic free-flyer outfitted with tentacle-like grippers prepares to grapple the object inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Anne McClain works inside the Quest airlock assembling hardware that will be installed during an upcoming spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for a new rollout solar array. On either side of McClain, are two spacesuits staged inside Quest being readied for the maintenance spacewalk.
The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station carrying NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia. Both spacecraft were orbiting 261 miles above the Mediterranean Sea near Italy's island of Sardegna at the time of this photograph.
The Soyuz MS-26 (foreground) and MS-27 crew ships are pictured docked to the International Space Station's Rassvet module and Prichal module, respectively. The orbital outpost was soaring 261 miles above Wyoming at the time of this photograph.
The Soyuz MS-26 (foreground) and MS-27 crew ships are pictured docked to the International Space Station's Rassvet module and Prichal module, respectively. At right, is the 214 million-year-old Manicouagan crater located in Quebec as the orbital outpost soared 263 miles above far eastern Canada.
Aboard the International Space Station, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Russia handed over command of the International Space Station to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi during a change of command ceremony on Friday, April 18, 2025. Ovchinin and Onishi are completing long-duration missions living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions.
Ovchinin will now turn his attention to returning to Earth with Flight Engineers Don Pettit of NASA and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos (Russia) after 220 days in space. The trio will undock in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the Rassvet module at 5:57 p.m. EDT on Saturday ending Expedition 72 then parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan at 8:20 p.m. the same day (6:20 a.m. on Sunday, April 20, in Kazakhstan) on Pettit’s 70th birthday.
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Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: JAXA Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy
NASA Flight Engineers: Don Pettit, Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Image Dates: April 4-9, 2025
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