International Space Station Change of Command Ceremony: Friday, April 18, 2025
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 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.
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy
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.
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science
For more information about STEM on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Duration: 6 minutes, 40 seconds
Release Date: April 18, 2025
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