NASA's "Space to Ground": Year 2024 in Review | International Space Station

NASA's "Space to Ground": Year 2024 in Review | International Space Station

The Year 2024 on the International Space Station was filled with excitement, challenges, and milestones as we marked 25 unbroken years of humans living, working, and flying in one of humanity's homes in low-earth orbit.

Update: Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Russia concluded their spacewalk on December 19, 2024, at 5:53 p.m. EST after seven hours and 17 minutes. Ovchinin and Vagner completed all of their major objectives, which included installing an experiment package designed to monitor celestial x-ray sources and new electrical connector patch panels and removing several experiments for disposal. The two cosmonauts were unable to complete their non-critical final objective due to time constraints. This  was to relocate a control panel for the European robotic arm, attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.

This was the second spacewalk in Ovinchin’s career, and the first for Vagner. It is the 272nd spacewalk for space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

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.

Video Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Duration: 8 minutes
Release Date: Dec. 20, 2024

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