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NASA to Welcome Expedition 74 Astronauts Home at Space Center Houston

Credit: ESA/Sophie Adenot 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.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 10, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC
Key points
  • Learn more about International Space Station research and operations at: https://www.nasa.gov/station -end- Anna Schneider / Shaneequa Vereen Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 [email protected] / [email protected].
  • The space station helps NASA understand and overcome the challenges of human spaceflight, expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit, and build on the foundation for long-duration missions to the Moon, as part of the Artemis program, and to Mars.
  • The Expedition 74 crew dedicated more than 1,400 hours to scientific research and technology demonstrations aboard the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot; and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud‑Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will share mission highlights at 6 p.m.

Additional details
  • 13 as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
  • For more than 26 years, people have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth.
  • Its work advanced in-space manufacturing by testing metal and tissue 3D-printing technologies and supported human health studies examining the effects of long-duration spaceflight.
  • (March 15, 2026) — The International Space Station orbits 267 miles above a cloudy Atlantic Ocean southwest of Cape Town, South Africa.
  • The crew also evaluated life-support and environmental systems critical to future exploration missions under NASA’s Artemis program.

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