NASA's Space to Ground: Crew-9 Arrival | Week of Oct. 4, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: Crew-9 Arrival | Week of Oct. 4, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission that began with a launch to the orbital outpost on March 3, 2024, is coming to an end and its four crew members will share their farewell message at 9:55 a.m. EDT on Sunday, October 6. 

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin will return to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Endeavour next week on a date soon to be announced by NASA and SpaceX officials.

Expedition 72 Updates:

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

Expedition 72 Crew

Station Commander: Suni Williams

Roscosmos (Russia): Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov

NASA: Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

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)

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

Duration: 3 minutes, 20 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 4, 2024

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