Expedition 68 Crew at Christmas | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Crew at Christmas | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers (from left) Josh Cassada, Nicole Mann, and Frank Rubio, all from NASA, and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), pose for a festive portrait on Christmas Day inside the cupola as the International Space Station orbited 270 miles above the southern Atlantic Ocean.

Astronaut Nicole Mann poses for a festive portrait on Christmas Eve

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers (from left) Josh Cassada of NASA, Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Frank Rubio of NASA, pose for a photograph while sharing a meal on Christmas Eve inside the International Space Station's Unity module.

Astronaut Nicole Mann exchanges samples inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox

Cosmonauts Anna Kikina and Sergey Prokopyev in the Zvezda service module

Station Commander & Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev is pictured aboard the International Space Station

Cosmonaut Anna Kikina is pictured inside the Zvezda service module

Astronaut Koichi Wakata (Japan) looks at the Earth below

Expedition 68 Crew Christmas Week 2022 Update: The seven Expedition 68 crew members wrapped up the work week cleaning up after a spacewalk and performing a variety of research operations. The space residents spent a quiet weekend observing the Christmas holiday orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station.

Expedition 68 Crew

Station Commander Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Anna Kikina & Dmitri Petelin

NASA: Flight Engineers Nicole Mann, Frank Rubio & Josh Cassada

JAXA (Japan): Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata

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. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: Dec. 11-25, 2022

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