The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 72 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard, April 19, 2025 (April 20, 2025, Kazakhstan time). The trio are returning to Earth after logging 220 days in space [...]
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft descends to a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan just over three hours after undocking from the International Space Station.NASA+ At 9:20 p.m. EDT (6:20 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sunday, April 20), the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft made a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. Spanning 220 days [...]
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured moments after undocking from the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.NASA NASA’s live return coverage is underway on NASA+. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, with NASA [...]
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner departs the International Space Station.NASA+ At 5:57 p.m. EDT, the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft undocked from the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module with NASA astronaut Don Petitt and Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. NASA’s live coverage of deorbit [...]
iss072e977434 (April 9, 2025) — The Soyuz MS-26 (foreground) and MS-27 crew ships are pictured docked to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module and Prichal module, respectively. At right, is the 214 million-year-old Manicouagan crater located in Quebec as the orbital outpost soared 263 miles above far eastern Canada.NASA NASA’s live coverage of undocking is [...]
(From left) Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Don Pettit of NASA, and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos wave farewell before boarding their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft for the ride back to Earth.NASA+ At 2:52 p.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to Earth. NASA [...]
Soyuz MS-26 crew members (from left) NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Credit: GCTCGCTC/Andrey Shelepin NASA’s live departure coverage is underway on NASA+. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. [...]
ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll This newly reprocessed image released on April 18, 2025, provides a new view of an enormous, 9.5-light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust. Despite its size, it’s just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula, also called Messier 16. The Eagle Nebula is one of many nebulae in the [...]
Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin (left) hands over command of the International Space Station to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi (right) as the rest of the Expedition 72 crew looks on.NASA The International Space Station has a new commander as three Expedition 72 crew members get ready to return to Earth on Saturday. [...]
NASA astronauts work to retrieve batteries and adapter plates from an external pallet during a spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power storage capacity.Credit: NASA Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 93 on Thursday, May 1, to complete station upgrades. NASA will preview the upcoming spacewalk during [...]
