Overview
- The station hosts two SpaceX Dragons, two Soyuz crew ships, two Progress freighters, JAXA’s HTV‑X1, and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL.
- Mission Control in Houston operated Canadarm2 to move Cygnus to Unity’s Earth-facing port under a plan coordinated with Northrop Grumman and Roscosmos.
- Ten Expedition 73 crew members are onboard conducting research, with a Soyuz departure on Dec. 8 set to lower the crew to seven.
- Cygnus is slated to remain until no earlier than March 2026 before departing loaded with trash for a destructive reentry.
- Recent tasks included cryogenic fluid management work by NASA’s Mike Fincke and cerebral blood-flow measurements by JAXA’s Kimiya Yui.