Expedition 72 Crew Photos: February 2025 | International Space Station

Expedition 72 Crew Photos: February 2025 | International Space Station

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the vestibule between the International Space Station and the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. Clockwise from left, are NASA astronauts Butch Wimore, Nick Hague, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. From left, are NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Butch Wimore.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the International Space Station's Unity module. From left, are NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Butch Wimore.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the International Space Station's Unity module. Clockwise from left, are NASA astronauts Butch Wimore and Suni Williams, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia, and NASA astronaut Nick Hague.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams measures her mass using a specialized device inside the International Space Station's Zvezda service module. The mass measurement device applies a known force to an attached astronaut and measures the resulting acceleration to acquire the crew member's mass. The result is based on a form of Newton's Second Law of Motion.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Suni Williams displays production packs containing geneticallly engineered yeast and edible media for incubation to activate yeast growth. The BioNutrients investigation explores using the engineered yeast to produce on-demand nutrients and avoid vitamin deficiencies for crews on long-term missions. The samples are later frozen then returned to Earth to analyze their ability promote crew health and improve the preservation of probiotics.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague works in a portable glovebag and cleans pumps, replaces components, and installs bio-ink syringes inside the BioFabrication Facility being tested for its capability to print biological, or organ-like, tissues in space and learn how to eventually fabricate human organs off the Earth.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague measures his mass using a specialized device inside the International Space Station's Zvezda service module. The mass measurement device applies a known force to an attached astronaut and measures the resulting acceleration to acquire the crew member's mass. The result is based on a form of Newton's Second Law of Motion.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 members, including NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia joined each other on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, for a refresher session and practiced on a computer the procedures for reentering the Earth’s atmosphere aboard the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. The quartet is planned to undock from the space station about a week after NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission arrives carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov of Russia, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Takuya Onishi. Crew-10’s four crew members are targeted to launch no earlier than March 12, 2025, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Expedition 72 Updates:

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

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image Dates: Feb. 11-19, 2025

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