NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara returned to Earth after a six-month analysis venture aboard the World Area Station on Saturday, at the side of Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight player Marina Vasilevskaya.
The trio departed the distance station aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at 11:54 p.m. EDT on April 5, and made a protected, parachute-assisted touchdown at 3:17 a.m., April 6 (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time), southeast of the far off the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
O’Hara introduced Sept. 15, 2023, along Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who each will stay aboard the distance station to finish a one-year venture. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya introduced aboard Soyuz MS-25 on March 23 at the side of NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, who will stay aboard the orbiting laboratory till q4.
O’Hara spent a complete of 204 days in area as a part of her first spaceflight. Novitskiy has logged a complete of 545 days in area throughout 4 spaceflights and Vasilevskaya has spent 14 days in area as a part of her first spaceflight.
Supporting NASA’s Artemis marketing campaign, O’Hara’s venture helped get ready for exploration of the Moon and construct foundations for crewed missions to Mars. She finished roughly 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a adventure of greater than 86.5 million miles. O’Hara labored on medical actions aboard the distance station, together with investigating middle well being, most cancers therapies, and area production ways all over her keep aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Following post-landing scientific exams, the workforce will go back to the restoration staging town in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. O’Hara will then board a NASA airplane certain for her go back to the company’s Johnson Area Middle in Houston.
With the undocking of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with O’Hara, Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya, Expedition 71 formally started aboard the station. NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy C. Dyson, and Jeannette Epps, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko make up Expedition 71 and can stay at the orbiting laboratory till q4.
Be told extra about area station actions through following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Fb, ISS Instagram, and the distance station weblog.
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