NASA Astronauts Send Independence Day Message Before Cargo Mission Launches
NASA’s Expedition 73 Flight Engineers Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, and Jonny Kim called down to Earth from the International Space Station and shared an Independence Day message in this video recorded on June 16, 2025. The NASA trio along with their Expedition 73 crewmates station Commander Takuya Onishi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Roscosmos Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy, and Kirill Peskov relaxed the day before the U.S. holiday. Their Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) visitors also had an off-duty day. Ax-4 private astronauts Peggy Whitson, Shubhanshu Shukla, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, and Tibor Kapu will resume their science-packed schedule on Friday and work into the weekend. Roscosmos’ Progress 92 resupply ship is counting down to its launch at 3:32 p.m. EDT on today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress is scheduled to dock to the Poisk module at 5:27 p.m. on Saturday delivering about three thousand pounds of food,...