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This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2025, including launches planned for 2025 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2025 in spaceflight .
Expedition 73 will be the 73rd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). The expedition will begin with the departure of Soyuz MS-26 , expected to take place in March 2025. Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA ) will serve as the commander of the expedition, the third JAXA astronaut to take ...
Group patch. NASA announced the creation of this astronaut group in February 2020 and accepted applications for astronaut hires during the month of March 2020. For this class, the educational requirements increased to be at minimum a master's degree in a STEM field (engineering, biological science, physical science, computer science, or mathematics) from an accredited institution; in classes ...
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).
27 April 2022 07:52:55 SpaceX Crew-4: Transferred to Expedition 68 Sergey Prokopyev Dmitry Petelin Francisco Rubio: 21 September 2022 13:54 Soyuz MS-22: 68: Kjell Lindgren Bob Hines Samantha Cristoforetti [f] Jessica Watkins: Transferred from Expedition 67 14 October 2022 20:55 SpaceX Crew-4: 170.5 Sergey Prokopyev [36] Dmitry Petelin Francisco ...
Russia has stated that it plans to pull out of the ISS program after 2025. [76] However, Russian modules will provide orbital station-keeping until 2028. [73] The US planned in 2009 to deorbit the ISS in 2016. [74] But on 30 September 2015, Boeing's contract with NASA as prime contractor for the ISS was extended to 30 September 2020.
Expedition 68 was the 68th long-duration expedition to the International Space Station.The expedition began upon the departure of Soyuz MS-21 on 29 September 2022 [2] with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti taking over as ISS commander [3] and ended upon the uncrewed departure of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft on 28 March 2023.
During Expedition 67, the space station was also visited by the crew of Axiom Mission 1, a space tourist mission that brought three spaceflight participants to the station on April 9, 2022 along with former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, who had previously commanded the station during Expedition 14. They departed the ISS on April 25, 2022.