Spacecraft, Aurora & Orbital Sunrise | International Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured docked to the space-facing port on the International Space Station's Harmony module.
The unoccupied space-facing port on the International Space Station's Harmony module is pictured several hours before the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft would relocate there after undocking from Harmony's forward port.
As the International Space Station soared 257 miles above Lake Michigan, NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth while a green and red aurora moved through the atmosphere.
As the International Space Station soared 257 miles above northern Mexico, NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking across Earth while a green atmospheric glow crowned the horizon.
The first rays of an orbital sunrise illuminate Earth's atmosphere in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the Pacific Ocean near Chile's Patagonia coast on the South American continent.
On Tuesday, November 5, 2024, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module successfully delivering NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. CRS-31 is the fifth flight for this Dragon spacecraft. It previously flew CRS-21, CRS-23, CRS-25, and CRS-28 to the International Space Station.
The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft, with Expedition 72 crew members NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, autonomously redocked with the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module on November 3, 2024.
The port relocation freed up Harmony’s forward-facing port for the 31st SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. This was the fifth port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with crew aboard following previous moves during the Crew-1, Crew-2, Crew-6, and Crew-8 missions.
Expedition 72 Updates:
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. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.
Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Capture Dates: Oct. 1-Nov. 4, 2024
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