# Expedition 73 Astronauts Recognize Independence Day - July 3, 2025 (jsc2025m000120)

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 73 Flight Engineers Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, and Jonny Kim of NASA recorded a message for the nation’s celebration of its 249th birthday from their orbital vantage point 250 miles above Earth. Ayers and McClain launched to the station in March aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket nearly a month before Kim launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: NASA Johnson Space Center
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expedition_73_Astronauts_Recognize_Independence_Day_-_July_3,_2025_(jsc2025m000120).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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