Expedition 69 Crew Photos: September 2023 | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Crew Photos: September 2023 Reunions | International Space Station

Expedition 69 flight engineers and NASA astronauts (from left) Frank Rubio, Woody Hoburg, and Jasmin Moghbeli, pose for a portrait aboard the International Space Station. All three crew members were selected as part of the NASA astronaut class of 2017.

Expedition 69 flight engineers (from left) Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara, and Frank Rubio, all NASA astronauts, pose for a portrait aboard the International Space Station's Unity module. All three crew members were selected as part of the NASA astronaut class of 2017.

Jasmin Moghbeli: "While I think it is important to be passionate about what you do, I’ve found that what often matters most is who you do it with. After training closely together for over 2 years following our selection in 2017, our class of astronaut candidates has grown very close. We are known as “The Turtles”. 🐢🐢🐢 Frank has been on the space station for nearly a year now and has been teaching me and the rest of Crew-7 the ropes since we arrived." 

"We said goodbye to our Turtle classmate, Woody Hoburg a couple weeks ago." 

"On Friday, I was so excited to welcome my good friend Loral O'Hara to the ISS! Her Soyuz crew and our Dragon crew will make up Expedition 70, which will begin when we say goodbye to Frank and his Soyuz crewmates." 

"Turtles have continuously been in orbit since Raja Chari and Kayla Barron launched on Crew-3 in 2021!"

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Expedition 69 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

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

European Space Agency: Flight Engineer Andreas Mogensen (Denmark)

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (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.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Caption Credit: Jasmin Moghbeli/NASA/JSC

Image Dates: Sept. 4-15, 2023

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