Expedition 69 Photos: Welcoming New Crew | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Photos: Welcoming New Crew | International Space Station

From left, are Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg, Jasmin Moghbeli, and Frank Rubio, all from from NASA, posing for a portrait aboard the International Space Station. The three astronauts were selected as part NASA's 22nd group of astronauts, nicknamed "The Turtles", in June of 2017.

Astronauts Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates and Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency

Astronaut Stephen Bowen works in the Microgravity Science Glovebox

Three Expedition 69 flight engineers work together. Clockwise from left are, astronauts Woody Hoburg and Frank Rubio, both from from NASA, and Sultan Alneyadi from the United Arab Emirates.

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 orbital residents leave in September. 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, undock from Harmony’s forward port, and splashdown off the coast of Florida to complete a six-month space mission.

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

Expedition 69 Crew (September 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. 17-31, 2023

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