Spacecraft & Robots | International Space Station

Spacecraft & Robots | International Space Station

The Soyuz MS-26 crew ship (foreground) from Roscosmos of Russia is pictured docked to the International Space Station's Rassvet module. In the background, the Prichal docking module is pictured attached to the Nauka science module with the European robotic arm connected to it. 261 miles below the orbiting laboratory is the African nation of Libya.

The Soyuz MS-26 crew ship (foreground) from Roscosmos is pictured docked to the International Space Station's Rassvet module. In the background, the Prichal docking module is pictured attached to the Nauka science module with the European robotic arm connected to it.

Hurricane Milton is pictured as a category 4 storm in the Gulf of Mexico nearing the coast of Florida in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above. The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is also pictured from a window on the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.

Hurricane Milton is pictured as a category 4 storm in the Gulf of Mexico nearing the coast of Florida in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 257 miles above. The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is also pictured from a window on the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.

The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured from a window on the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft in a photograph taken by NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flght Engineer Nick Hague. 258 miles below the International Space Station is the Sunflower State of Kansas.

The 57.7-foot-long Candarm2 robotic arm extends from the Harmony module as the International Space Station orbits above the terminator, the line that separates Earth's daytime from nighttime, 261 miles above the African nation of Sudan. Obscured behind Harmony toward upper left, is the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft.

The atmospheric glow, caused by atoms and moelcules excited by sunlight, blankets Earth's nighttime horizon with a sparkling field of stars above in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 270 miles above the Pacific Ocean north of Auckland, New Zealand.

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)

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

Capture Date: Oct. 7-8, 2024

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