# @iss on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DEAkXjNuZLR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/53939738-iss-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-12-25T16:58:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** International Space Station (@iss) — https://gondola.cc/iss

## Caption

Expedition 72 is the 25th crew to spend Christmas aboard the International Space Station. The first crew to spend the holidays on the orbital outpost was Expedition 1 on Dec. 25, 2000.

Pic 1) NASA Astronauts Suni Williams, Don Pettit, Nick Hague, and Butch Wilmore of Expedition 72 shared a holiday greeting and expressed well wishes to those back home on Earth during a pre-recorded message on Dec. 23, 2024.

Pic 2) Wearing Santa Claus hats, cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin (left), Expedition 14 flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, commander and NASA space station science officer; and astronaut Sunita L. Williams, flight engineer, pose for a holiday photo in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station.

Pic 3) Expedition 34 crew members assemble in the Unity node of the International Space Station for a brief celebration of the Christmas holiday. Pictured clockwise (from top right) are NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, commander; Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Roman Romanenko, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, all flight engineers.

Pic 4) The Expedition 61 crew celebrates Christmas day with a brunch inside the International Space Station's Unity module decorated with stockings, flashlight "candles" and a Christmas tree banner. Clockwise from bottom left are, NASA Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch, Roscosmos Flight Engineers Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Skvortsov, NASA Flight Engineer Drew Morgan, and Commander Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (ESA).

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