NASA Astronaut Reunion: Ayers, Whitson & McClain | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Reunion: Ayers, Whitson & McClain | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (Ax-4 Commander), and NASA astronaut Anne McClain

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (Ax-4 Commander), and NASA astronaut Anne McClain

Expedition 73 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Anne McClain: "They say you live with your choices . . . well, we certainly are doing just that! Peggy Whitson was on the astronaut selection committee that selected me in 2013, and I was on the selection committee that selected astronaut Nichole Ayers in 2021. Now, we all are living and working together aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 73 and Ax-4 missions (and having a LOT of fun in the process). When you reach your goals, send the elevator back down!"

Peggy Whitson (United States) Biography
https://www.axiomspace.com/astronaut/peggy-whitson

Astronaut Anne McClain NASA Biography:
https://www.nasa.gov/people/anne-c-mcclain/

Astronaut Nichole Ayers NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-nichole-ayers

Mission managers have given the “go” for the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and undock from the International Space Station’s space-facing port on the Harmony module at 7:05 a.m. EDT on Monday, July 14. Ax-4 Commander Peggy Whitson will lead Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, and Mission Specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, and Tibor Kapu back to Earth completing a two-and-a-half-week research mission aboard the orbiting lab.

Follow Expedition 73:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (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's Johnson Space Center
Release Date: July 10, 2025

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