Soyuz MS-25 Crew Prepares for Departure | International Space Station

Soyuz MS-25 Crew Prepares for Departure | International Space Station

Soyuz MS-25 crewmembers (from left to right): NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick: "Took this picture shortly after the new Soyuz arrived last week just to show the effect of six months of space environment on the exterior the Soyuz."

Image details: 28mm, ISO 500, f16, 1/400s

Two Roscosmos (Russian) crew ships, the Soyuz MS-26 docked to the Rassvet module (foreground) and the Soyuz MS-25 (background) docked to the Prichal docking module, are pictured parked at the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil's Amazon Delta.

Two Roscosmos (Russian) crew ships, the Soyuz MS-26 docked to the Rassvet module (foreground) and the Soyuz MS-25 (background) docked to the Prichal docking module, are pictured parked at the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above Sudan near the Nile River on the African continent.

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is now completing a six-month mission, while Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia are wrapping up just over a year in low-Earth orbit at the International Space Station.  The Earth-bound trio is scheduled to depart the orbital lab inside the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at 4:47 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. At that time, Expedition 71 will end and Expedition 72 will officially be under way. The crew inside the Soyuz will parachute to a landing just over three hours later in Kazakhstan. 

Expedition 71/72 Updates:

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

Expedition 71 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner 

NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit

For more info: www.nasa.gov/station

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

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)/M. Dominick

Image Dates: Sept. 15-16, 2024

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