Spacewalks & Spaceships | International Space Station

Spacewalks & Spaceships | International Space Station

Russian Cosmonaut Nikolai Chub of Russia during a four-hour and 36-minute spacewalk

Russian Soyuz MS-25 crew ship docked to the Prichal docking module

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is pictured docked to the International Space Station's forward port on the Harmony module as the orbital complex soared 269 miles above a cloudy South Atlantic Ocean.

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia, is pictured after undocking from the Harmony module's forward port on the International Space Station. Shortly afterward, Endeavour relocated to the Harmony's space-facing port opening up the forward port for Boeing's Crew Flight Test and its Starliner spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

An aurora blankets Earth's horizon in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above North America. In the foreground, are the Rassvet module and the Nauka science module. The Prichal docking module and the Russian Soyuz MS-25 crew ship are both attached to Nauka.

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia concluded their four hour and 36 minute spacewalk on April 25, 2024. Kononenko and Chub completed their major objectives. It was the seventh spacewalk in Kononenko’s career, and the second for Chub. This was the 270th spacewalk for International Space Station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, with Expedition 71 crew members NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, autonomously redocked with the Harmony module’s space-facing port on May 2, 2024, over the eastern Indian Ocean, northwest of Australia.

As the 28th spacecraft relocation in station history, the move makes room for the arrival on Wednesday, May 8, of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test and the Starliner spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)

NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominik, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps

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)

Image Dates: April 25-May 2, 2024

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