Expedition 72 Crew: Russian Soyuz Hatch Opening | International Space Station

Expedition 72 Crew: Russian Soyuz Hatch Opening | International Space Station

 

At 3:32pm EDT today, the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft arrived at the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module as the International Space Station was flying 262 miles over central Ukraine. NASA astronaut Don Petitt and Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Russia launched at 12:23pm EDT Sept. 11, 2024, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner have begun a six month long duration mission on the International Space Station (ISS).

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, Suni Williams, 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/Roscosmos

Duration: 2 minutes, 46 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 11, 2024

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