Expedition 69

Expedition 69 explored 3D-cultured cardiac tissues, tested a crew immunity system monitor, studied spacecraft fire safety, and allowed students an opportunity to design station hardware.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg, Sultan Alneyadi, Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, Andrey Fedyaev

START

March 28, 2023

Landing

Sept. 27, 2023

The official Expedition 69 crew portrait with (from left) Frank Rubio, Dmitri Petelin, Sultan Alneyadi, Woody Hoburg, Stephen Bowen, Andrey Fedyaev, and Sergey Prokopyev.
NASA

Expedition 69 Crew Insignia — The official insignia of the Expedition 69 mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA

Crew Members

Sergey Prokopyev, Commander
Frank Rubio, Flight Engineer
Dmitri Petelin, Flight Engineer
Stephen Bowen, Flight Engineer
Woody Hoburg, Flight Engineer
Andrey Fedyaev, Flight Engineer
Sultan Alneyadi, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

9/27/23 – Soyuz MS-23 Undock/Land
9/15/23 – Soyuz MS-24 Launch/Dock
9/4/23 – SpaceX Crew-6 Splashdown
9/3/23 – SpaceX Crew-6 Undock
8/27/23 – SpaceX Crew-7 Dock
8/26/23 – SpaceX Crew-7 Launch
8/24/23 – ISS Progress 85 Dock
8/22/23 – ISS Progress 85 Launch
8/20/23 – ISS Progress 83 Undock
8/4/23 – Cygnus CRS-19 Capture
8/1/23 – Cygnus CRS-19 Launch
6/29/23 – SpaceX CRS-28 Undock
6/6/23 – SpaceX CRS-28 Dock
6/5/23 – SpaceX CRS-28 Launch
5/30/23 – Axiom Mission-2 Undock
5/24/23 – Progress 84 Launch/Dock
5/22/23 – Axiom Mission-2 Dock
5/21/23 – Axiom Mission-2 Launch
5/6/23 – SpaceX Crew-6 Relocation
4/21/23 – Cygnus CRS-18 Release
4/15/23 – SpaceX CRS-27 Undock
4/6/23 – Soyuz MS-23 Relocation
03/28/23 – Soyuz MS-22 Undock/Land

Spacewalks

Date: Aug. 9, 2023
Duration: 6 hours, 35 minutes
Spacewalkers: Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin

Date: June 22, 2023
Duration: 6 hours, 24 minutes
Spacewalkers: Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin

Date: June 15, 2023
Duration: 5 hours, 35 minutes
Spacewalkers: Woody Hoburg, Stephen Bowen

Date: June 9, 2023
Duration: 6 hours, 3 minutes
Spacewalkers: Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg

Date: May 12, 2023
Duration: 5 hours, 14 minutes
Spacewalkers: Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin

Date: May 3, 2023
Duration: 7 hours, 11 minutes
Spacewalkers: Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin

Date: April 28, 2023
Duration: 7 hours, 1 minute
Spacewalkers: Stephen Bowen, Sultan Alneyadi

Date: April 19, 2023
Duration: 7 hours, 55 minutes
Spacewalkers: Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin

Expedition 69 Image Gallery

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Expedition 69 Resources

Mission Blogs

The daily blog updates for Expedition 69 highlighting crew and cargo missions, spacewalks, and advanced space research.

The sun's first rays burst over the Earth's horizon

Mission Summary

Get an overview of the Expedition, its crew and the activities they are working on during this mission to the International Space Station.

The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) Growth and Extinction Limits (GEL) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) studies flame growth and extinction in an effort to improve fire safety in space. This image shows a sequence of snapshots taken about 3 seconds apart. During this test point, the ambient oxygen concentration starts relatively high (28%). Initially, the flame is seen as yellow and sooty. As the ambient pressure is reduced, the flame becomes bluer and continues to shrink until fully extinguished. This gives researchers pressure limit data points for flame extinction that could help improve crew and spacecraft safety for future exploration missions.

Mission Science

Learn more about the range of microgravity science encompassing human research, space phsyics, and more the Expedition 69 crew has conducted.

SpaceX Crew-6 Science

The SpaceX Crew-6 members studied how materials burn in weightlessness, immunity health in space, space-caused changes in cell function and genetic expression, and more.

The mission patch for NASA's SpaceX Crew-7.

SpaceX Crew-7 Science

The SpaceX Crew-7 members compared Earth and space sleep patterns, monitored numerous astronaut health parameters, examined disinfectants to clean spacecraft surfaces, and more.

One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of 222 nautical miles above a point in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles off the coast of Africa near the Tropic of Cancer, photographed this eye-catching panorama of the night sky and the Milky Way on Sept. 27. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, flight engineer, tweeted the image, which was taken with an electronic still camera, set with a 24mm focal length. In his accompanying comments, Wiseman stated, "Sahara sands make the Earth glow orange."

Mission Imagery

During Expedition 69, the crew took images of the Earth views, the orbiting station, their daily lives aboard and the experiments they conducted during their stay, plus so much more. Check out some of the image highlights from Expedition 69 in the gallery.