NASA to Welcome Expedition 74 Astronauts Home at Space Center Houston on November 17
HOUSTON, Texas — NASA will welcome home the Expedition 74 crew during a public event at Space Center Houston following their return from a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station, the agency announced. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams; ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot; and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will share mission highlights at 6 p.m. CST Tuesday, Nov. 17, at NASA Johnson Space Center's visitor center, followed by an awards ceremony recognizing key mission contributors.
The astronauts will be available for media interviews before the event, with requests due by 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16 to the Johnson Space Center newsroom.
Williams, Kud-Sverchkov, and Mikaev launched aboard the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 27, 2025, and returned to Earth on July 26, landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after 241 days in space, 3,856 orbits and more than 102 million miles traveled. Meir, Hathaway, and Adenot launched on Feb. 13 aboard a Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission and, after more than seven months aboard the station and more than 100 million miles traveled over 3,792 orbits, splashed down on Oct. 8 in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles.
The Expedition 74 crew dedicated more than 1,400 hours to scientific research and technology demonstrations, advancing in-space manufacturing by testing metal and tissue 3D-printing technologies, supporting human health studies, conducting pharmaceutical research to crystallize proteins for cancer medications, and caring for the first set of plants studied outside of curated systems. NASA said people have lived and worked continuously aboard the station for more than 26 years, and its research helps build the foundation for long-duration missions to the Moon under the Artemis program and to Mars.
(Source: NASA)
Source: NASA
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Photo: 图：国际空间站第74远征队全体成员官方合影（NASA，公共领域，Wikimedia Commons）。 / Photo: Official portrait of the International Space Station Expedition 74 crew (NASA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).
