Expedition 69: New Crew & Station Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 69: New Crew & Station Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Flight Engineers play chess with NASA mission controllers

UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi poses for portrait with new haircut

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi services tissue sample cassettes

Roscosmos spacewalkers Sergey Prokopyev & Dmitri Petelin

International Space Station orbits above a partly cloudy Pacific Ocean

Russian Soyuz MS-23 crew ship approaches docking module

Update: At 7:22 a.m. EDT, April 21, 2023, Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft was released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm which earlier detached Cygnus from the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station’s Unity module. 

The Cygnus spacecraft successfully departed the space station more than five months after arriving at the microgravity laboratory to deliver about 8,200 pounds of supplies, scientific investigations, commercial products, hardware, and other cargo for NASA.

Following a deorbit engine firing later Friday evening, Cygnus will begin a planned destructive re-entry, in which the spacecraft—filled with trash packed by the station crew—will safely burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.

Cygnus arrived at the space station Nov. 10, 2022, following a launch on Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. It was the company’s 18th commercial resupply services mission to the space station for NASA. Northrop Grumman named the spacecraft “S.S. Sally Ride” after late NASA astronaut, physicist, and first American woman to fly in space, Sally Ride, launched on an Antares rocket from the Virginia Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad 0A at Wallops.

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Expedition 69 Crew (March 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

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.

Image Credit: NASA/JSC

Image Dates: March 29 - April 19, 2023

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