alypsos return to White Sands. On Sept. 11, MS-26 launched from Baikonur with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexsey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner along with NASAs Don Pettit. They conducted a handover period with the Soyuz MS-25 crew before Kononenko, Chub, and Dyson departed ISS and returned to Earth on Sept. 23.
uni Williams is now the Station commander, marking the second time she has performed this duty. Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexsey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, and Don Pettit are the current Expedition 72 members aboard the ISS, and this is the crew that will finish 2024 aboard the ISS.