Expedition 72 Crew Prepares for Kazakhstan Launch | International Space Station

Expedition 72 Crew Prepares for Kazakhstan Launch | International Space Station

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-26 prime and backup crews have completed final pre-flight training for the scheduled launch Sept. 11, 2024, of NASA’s Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Russia on the start of a planned six-month mission to the International Space Station. The training activities that took place August 26 to September 8, includes the rollout of the Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle to its launch pad in Baikonur Sept. 8.

NASA Astronaut Donald R. Pettit Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/donald-r-pettit/

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/donald-r-pettit/

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.

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

Duration: 22 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 9, 2024

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