New Expedition 72 Crew & International Space Station Images

New Expedition 72 Crew & International Space Station Images

Astronauts Suni Williams and Don Pettit pose for a selfie-portrait

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Don Pettit, Expedition 72 Commander and Flight Engineer respectively, take a break from science maintenance activities and pose for a selfie-portrait aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams photographs the European Materials Ageing (EMA) experiment hardware beng set up inside the International Space Station's Harmony module. EMA contains a variety of samples that will be exposed to the space environment to learn how to improve the development of space hardware and applications for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The external investigation will operate outside the Columbus laboratory module for about a year.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams installs the European Materials Ageing experiment hardware inside the Nanoracks Bishop airlock. The external investigation will be robotically removed from Bishop, installed on the Bartolomeo research platform attached to the outside of the Columbus laboratory module, and expose a variety of materials to the vacuum of space for about a year.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague installs the European Materials Ageing experiment hardware inside the Nanoracks Bishop airlock. The external investigation will be robotically removed from Bishop, installed on the Bartolomeo research platform attached to the outside of the Columbus laboratory module, and expose a variety of materials to the vacuum of space for about a year.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Nick Hague, Expedition 72 Commander and Flight Engineer respectively, install the European Materials Ageing experiment hardware inside the Nanoracks Bishop airlock. The external investigation will be robotically removed from Bishop, installed on the Bartolomeo research platform attached to the outside of the Columbus laboratory module, and expose a variety of materials to the vacuum of space for about a year.

The International Space Station is pictured from the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft by a SpaceX Crew-8 member shortly after undocking from the Harmony module's space-facing port. The orbital outpost was soaring 272 miles above the cloudy Patagonia region of South America at the time of this photograph on October 23, 2024.

The International Space Station is pictured from a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft by a SpaceX Crew-8 member shortly after undocking from the Harmony module's space-facing port. The orbital outpost was soaring 272 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile at the time of this photograph on October 23, 2024.

The Full Moon is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean. In the foreground, a portion of one of the orbital outpost's radiators, also known as the External Active Thermal Control System, is seen.

Crew Update: Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Russia are preparing for a spacewalk that will see the duo remove external science experiments and relocate European robotic arm hardware. The pair organized their spacewalking tools and conducted photographic inspections inside the Poisk airlock where they will exit into the vacuum of space at 10:10 a.m. EST on Thursday, December 19, 2024. Ovchinin and Vagner will spend about six hour and 40-minutes wearing their Orlan spacesuits while tethered to the outside of the orbital outpost.

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 Dates: Oct. 23-Dec. 14, 2024

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