Commander Williams+Astronauts Wilmore & Hague | International Space Station

Commander Williams+Astronauts Wilmore & Hague | International Space Station

Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineers Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague, all three NASA astronauts, pose for a portrait together with the U.S. flag behind them aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module. The trio was honoring veteran members of the U.S. Armed Forces during Veterans Day on November 11, 2024. Williams is a retired U.S. Navy captain, Wilmore is a U.S. Navy test pilot, and Hague is U.S. Space Force colonel.

Another Expedition 72 crewmember is NASA astronaut and chemical engineer, Don Pettit. He is a civilian astronaut, although Pettit is also an Eagle Scout. Eagle Scout is the highest rank one can receive in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

Learn more here:

https://www.scouting.org/about/research/eagle-scouts/

Expedition 72 Updates:

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

Expedition 72 Crew
Station Commander: Suni Williams
Roscosmos (Russia): Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov
NASA: 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.

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)
Image Date: Nov. 11, 2024

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