NASA Hosts Expedition 71 Crew Astronauts at Marshall

NASA hosted four astronauts at 9 a.m. CDT Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center to discuss their recent mission aboard the International Space Station with the workforce in the center’s activities building. NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy C. Dyson served as part of Expedition 71. Dominick, Barratt, and Epps launched aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission in March 2024 and returned to Earth in October 2024 after spending nearly eight months aboard the orbiting complex. Dyson launched aboard a Roscosmos Soyuz spacecraft also in March 2024 and returned in September 2024 after completing a six-month research mission aboard the space station.

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I'm starting to go there. I'm the director of the Office of Communications here at Marshall. and the whole other way. Fred. The expedition 71 crew carried out numerous scientific investigations and technology demonstrations, paving the way for the forthcoming space exploration endeavors.

Fostering innovations that bring tangible benefits. At first, we appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedules to be kind and share your experiences with us today. served as flight engineer aboard for the. Next, we have tremendous Roving applause Pretty awesome thing about it. Right.

The first time is you gotta walk us. Walk us? Yeah. This is the last time I walk for eight months. I've never quite understood how the class of turtles greet each other every time, but this is a back greeting his fellow classmates and I saw coming through the hatch for the first time.

Big, spacious, magnificent station. being part of a relay team, we take the baton from you guys, and start kind of doing our part to help see these investigations through. And then the joy of being able to work with you, talking to you, knowing that there's layers and, backroom You don't need a lot of special equipment. You just need to learn some things and you can practice medicine. Quite nice in the end.

Or, you know, hopefully as little as possible Science with Don. So things didn't go well. There was Alka Seltzer in a water bottle. We were trying to demonstrate, propellant transfer. For us it also meant a delivery of fresh food and a few niceties.

One of the freezers that came up destined to take down samples actually was full of ice cream. This is our Olympics. Yeah. Matt basically produced this thing and put it together. And, boy, we had a lot of fun making this.

Everybody was a winner. But. undock after 235 days. After. The.

And so I built a really big drive. I know you guys get the work in the space industry, but you go out of town and folks don't know what we're doing. And so I built a really big drive to share Definitely set the standard for Top Gear at the space station. Hopefully people will continue your legacy up there. I know you guys talk about, having more crew on station for a longer period of time than anticipated, and And, you can check out here to take on the astrophysics space that I have, you know, on a regular basis, as I, In anticipation of that, the gate at NASA.

It's called we servers and was trying to figure out how great he would handle the load. So yeah, he did So, you know, the thing that I did was I just decided to make my career exactly what I wanted to do. I did miss the opportunities, but they were calculated risk. She had water everywhere, and it was turning the ice instantly. So think about that.

How how is she get as close and then she can see you. We connected back to see And, I'm so thankful for the opportunity, because it was the first and only time that we had to really soak it in on a shuttle mission. It's a pretty, highly choreographed timeline, and you don't have a whole lot of opportunity to get it out the window. Which is that the. Don't put it in, you know, you're not doing this just by yourself.

Part of what you do is, so dependent on teamwork and, and also mentorship and finding people that, you look up to to ask questions, to be your guide and questions of life. Besides time up there, down here, the the voice of the science. it's incredible. It's been a lot, like, a lot long time to figure out how to capture with the camera what you're able see. It's really hard.

It's some of the most cool moments. Really, really dynamic. We transition from That's kind of a question. You know, at the same. Understanding like running around.

For you. Oh, really? Man. Oh, you don't have to. The rest of the year.

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