Expedition 69 Photos: Eleven Crew & Five Countries | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Photos: Eleven Crew & Five Countries | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli inside the Unity module

European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark inside the Columbus laboratory module

Astronauts Frank Rubio of the United States & Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates enjoy a slice of pizza

NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen enjoys a slice of pizza

NASA Astronaut Woody Hoburg relaxes and plays guitar

Expedition 69 Flight Engineers (from left) Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos (Russia) and Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, both from NASA, are pictured in the SpaceX pressure suits they will wear when they return to Earth aboard the company's Dragon Endeavour spacecraft in September.

United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi wears a SpaceX pressure suit

Hurricane Idalia in the Gulf of Mexico

The four newest crew members aboard the International Space Station are adjusting to life in weightlessness while stepping up orbital maintenance duties. The seven other Expedition 69 crew mates continued their space research and health activities before September sees the orbital residents split up. Members of the Expedition 69 crew can be seen in a series of portraits and candid photos here. 

Cosmonaut and flight engineer Andrey Fedyaev of Russia will be returning to Earth soon with NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, plus Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates—all members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6. The quartet will enter the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft one week after Crew-7 arrives, undock from Harmony’s forward port, and splashdown off the coast of Florida to complete a six-month space mission.

NASA and SpaceX are currently targeting no earlier than Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023, for Crew-6 and SpaceX’s Dragon to undock from the space station and safely splashdown off the coast of Florida on Sunday, Sept. 3. Joint teams are monitoring weather forecasts across seven potential splashdown sites off the coast of Florida and any impacts Hurricane Idalia may have on recovery operations.

Follow Expedition 69 updates here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 69 Crew (August 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin, Andrey Fedyaev, Konstantin Borisov

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

European Space Agency: Flight Engineer Andreas Mogensen (Denmark)

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg, Jasmin Moghbeli (USA)

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: Aug. 23-29, 2023

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