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NASA to welcome Expedition 74 crew at Space Center Houston on Nov. 17
NASA said it will host a public homecoming for the Expedition 74 International Space Station crew at Space Center Houston at 6 p.m. CST on Nov. 17 [1].
NASA will host a public welcome-home event for Expedition 74 crew members at Space Center Houston at 6 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Nov. 17, following their return from the International Space Station1.
The agency said NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will discuss mission highlights at Johnson Space Center's visitor center, with an awards ceremony afterward1.
NASA said astronauts will be available for media interviews before the event, with in-person interview requests due by 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, to the Johnson Space Center newsroom1.
Williams, Kud-Sverchkov and Mikaev launched on Soyuz MS-28 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 27, 2025, and landed southeast of Dzhezkazgan on July 26 after 241 days in space, 3,856 orbits and more than 102 million miles, NASA said; it was the first flight for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov1.
Meir, Hathaway and Adenot launched on a Dragon spacecraft as NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Feb. 13 and splashed down in the Pacific off Los Angeles on Oct. 8 after more than seven months, traveling more than 100 million miles and completing more than 3,792 orbits in a 237-day mission, NASA said; it was Meir's second flight and the first for Hathaway and Adenot1.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev also flew on Crew-12 but is unavailable for the event, NASA said1.
NASA said Expedition 74 spent more than 1,400 hours on research and technology demonstrations, including metal and tissue 3D printing, human health studies, life-support tests tied to Artemis, pharmaceutical protein work, plant studies, a Cold Atom Lab upgrade, visiting spacecraft operations and station maintenance1.
The agency noted more than 26 years of continuous habitation on the station and said the lab supports science, commercial low Earth orbit work and long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars1.
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