ISS Expedition 72-73 Change of Command Ceremony
International Space Station
Friday, April 18, 2025 · 18:40 UTC
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/01ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, Expedition 72 commander, will hand over the International Space Station command to JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi who will become commander of Expedition 73.
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Agencies
/03National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Government
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
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/04International Space Station
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.