Expedition 73 & Ax-4 Crews in 'Moving Pictures' | International Space Station FriendsofNASA.org: Expedition flight engineer and NASA astronaut Anne McClain: "How do we take group photos in space? We cannot ask a passerby for help, so we set up a camera to take a photo every 5 seconds, get in position, then stop to smile at the camera. Looks a little chaotic, but it works!" The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft undocked at 7:15 a.m. EDT from the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s first astronaut to board the ISS, delivered a heartfelt message during a farewell ceremony marking the end of Axiom Mission 4. “From space, India looks ambitious, fearless, confident—and still saare jahan se accha,” he said, earning applause across the nation. Shukla joined crew members from the USA, Poland, and Hungary, along with NASA’s Expedition 73 team, as he prepared to undock after making history for India in global space exploration. [Shubhanshu S

Expedition 72 Crew Prepares for Kazakhstan Launch | International Space Station FriendsofNASA.org: At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-26 prime and backup crews have completed final pre-flight training for the scheduled launch Sept. 11, 2024, of NASA’s Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner of Russia on the start of a planned six-month mission to the International Space Station. The training activities that took place August 26 to September 8, incl