NASA's Space to Ground: One in a Million | Week of April 18, 2025
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Expedition 72 will come to an end and segue into the Expedition 73 mission after three veteran crewmembers depart the International Space Station on Saturday, April 19, 2025.
Station Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (Russia) will hand over command of the orbital laboratory to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi at 2:40 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 18. Afterward, Ovchinin will 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: 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.
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science
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https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Duration: 5 minutes
Release Date: April 18, 2025
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