The Bahamas & Russian Soyuz Spacecraft | International Space Station

The Bahamas & Russian Soyuz Spacecraft | International Space Station

Expedition 73 commander and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi: "Japan seems hot, doesn't it? Inside the ISS, there's hardly any change in temperature or humidity, so there's no sense of seasons. At the very least, I tried to capture something summer-like in a photo. Titled, Soyuz spacecraft and the Bahamas.

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an island country of the Lucayan Archipelago consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean; north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the U.S. state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. Its capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence.

Onishi's Biography:

https://humans-in-space.jaxa.jp/en/astronaut/onishi-takuya/

Station Update: Waiting on Earth to replace Crew-10 is NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission with Commander Zena Cardman and Pilot Mike Fincke, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos (Russia). Crew-11 will begin their countdown to a launch inside their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center no earlier than 12:09 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 31, 2025.

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

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: JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi

Text Credits: NASA/JSC/TOnishi/Wikipedia
Image Date: July 27, 2025

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