ISS: Expedition 72

ISS Expedition 72 began with undocking of Soyuz MS-25 on September 23, 2024 at 08:36:30 UTC.

With docking of SpaceX Crew-9 on September 29, 2024 at 21:30 UTC Nicklaus Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov became Flight Engineers of Expedition 72.

SpaceX Crew-8 undocked from the International Space Station on October 23, 2024 at 21:05 UTC and landed the next day safely with Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Aleksandr Grebyonkin.

In preparation for the arrival of NASA's SpaceX 31^st commercial resupply services mission, four crew members aboard the International Space Station relocated the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft to a different docking port on November 03, 2024.
NASA astronauts Nicklaus Hague, Sunita Williams, and Barry Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, undocked the spacecraft from the forward-facing port of the station's Harmony module at 11:35:04 UTC and redocked to the module's space-facing port at 12:25:15 UTC.
The relocation, supported by flight controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Mission Control team at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, freed Harmony's forward-facing port for a Dragon cargo spacecraft mission scheduled to launch no earlier than November 04, 2024.

On November 05, 2024 at 02:29:31 UTC unmanned freighter Dragon SpX-31 or CRS-31 filled with nearly 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of supplies, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Each resupply mission to the station delivers scientific investigations in the areas of biology and biotechnology, Earth and space science, physical sciences, and technology development and demonstrations. Cargo resupply from U.S. companies ensures a national capability to deliver scientific research to the space station, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new investigations aboard humanity's laboratory in space.
In addition to food, supplies, and equipment for the crew, Dragon will deliver several new experiments, including the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment, to examine solar wind and how it forms. Dragon also delivers Antarctic moss to observe the combined effects of cosmic radiation and microgravity on plants. Other investigations aboard include a device to test cold welding of metals in microgravity, and an investigation that studies how space impacts different materials.
The spacecraft autonomously docked on November 05, 2024 at 14:52:11 UTC to the forward port of the space station's Harmony module.

Unmanned freighter Progress MS-27 filled with 'junk' and used-up equipment undocked from Poisk module on November 19, 2024 at 12:57:30 UTC. The unmanned transporter re-entered the atmosphere a few hours later and burned up over the South Pacific.

Progress MS-29 launched on November 21, 2024 at 12:22:23.197 UTC from Baikonur. The Progress MS-29 is designed to deliver 2,487 kg of cargo to the International Space Station, including 1,155 kg of apparatus and equipment for station systems, packaging for scientific experiments, clothing, food, medical and sanitary products for the crew of the 72^nd space station-duration expedition, 869 kg Fuel to refuel the station, 420 kg of drinking water for astronauts and 43 kg of nitrogen to replenish the ISS atmosphere.
The Progress MS-29 spacecraft docked to the space-facing port of the International Space Station's Poisk mini-research module on November 23, 2024 at 14:31:17 UTC.