Expedition 73 Crew Birthday & Milestone Celebrations | International Space Station

Expedition 73 Crew Birthday & Milestone Celebrations | International Space Station

"Station Commander and JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi celebrates 200 days in space!"

Expedition 73 mission specialist and NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers: "We like to celebrate milestones and birthdays on the International Space Station with cakes! You have to be creative when you can’t bake. We use cinnamon buns, muffin tops, pudding, fruit, and other things we can find in the pantry to make them special and delicious. Sometimes we get frosting as well and then we get to decorate them.🙂"

"We have definitely upped our cake game with each iteration. Trying to sneak in a cake build while someone is doing an activity in a different module has become one of my favorite parts!"

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, and Nichole Ayers, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia are now turning their attention to the end of their mission with a return to Earth targeted for early August. Before the Crew-10 quartet leaves, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is targeted to launch no earlier than July 31 with Commander Zena Cardman of NASA leading Pilot Mike Fincke of NASA and Mission Specialists Kimiya Yui of JAXA and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos (Russia). 

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: JAXA Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: 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.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center

Release Date: July 22, 2025

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