Expedition 71 Crew Photos: July 2024 | International Space Station

Expedition 71 Crew Photos: July 2024 | International Space Station

Clockwise from bottom, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps, Suni Williams, Mike Barratt, Tracy C. Dyson, and Butch Wilmore, pose for a team portrait inside the vestibule between the Unity module and the Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman. Dyson holds a photograph of NASA astronaut Patrica Hilliard for whom the Cygnus spacecraft, S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson, is named after.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson is pictured in the galley aboard the International Space Station's Unity module showing off food packets from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

NASA astronaut and Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore performs spacesuit maintenance inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Jeanette Epps is pictured inside the International Space Station's Columbus laboratory module. She was exploring ways to control a robot on the ground from a spacecraft. Epps coordinated with robotics engineers on Earth remotely manipulating a robot using a computer while testing its ergonomic features and haptic feedback for conditions such as wind and gravity. Results may inform future exploration missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick is pictured inside the Unity module after preparing Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter for its depressurization and departure from the International Space Station. At left, is the Quest airlock where astronauts service spacesuits and stage spacewalks. To the right, is the vestibule in between Unity and the Zarya module that leads to the orbital outpost's Roscosmos segment.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson is pictured inside the vestibule between the Unity module and Northrop Grumman's Cygnus space freighter. She had just closed Cygnus' hatch in preparation for its depressurization and departure from the International Space Station.

Expedition 71 Commander Oleg Kononenko (foreground) and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos cosmonauts of Russia, are pictured inside the International Space Station's Zvezda service module monitoring the automated rendevous and docking of the Progress 88 cargo craft to the Poisk module. The duo was at the controls of Zvezda's TORU, or telerobotically-operated rendezvous unit, ready to take remote control of the Progress 88, packed with about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew, in the unlikely event the spacecraft would be unable to dock on its own.

The long duration photograph from the International Space Station highlights the Rassvet module (left) and the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft (right) docked to the Prichal module which is itself attached to the Nauka science module. 255 miles below the orbital outpost is a cloudy Pacific Ocean blanketing islands northeast of Indonesia's province of Papua. Above Earth's horzon is the planet's atmospheric glow and star trails glittering in the vastness of space.

Expedition 71 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 71 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

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

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

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

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

Image Dates: July 1-11, 2024 

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