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Subj: NASA Astronaut Loral Oâ€ÖHara, Crewmates Return from ISS
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NASA astronaut Loral Oâ€ÖHara, KI5TOM, returned to Earth after a six-month
research mission aboard the International Space Station on April 6, along
with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight
participant Marina Vasilevskaya.
The trio departed the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at
03:54 UTC, and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 07:17 (12:17 p.m.
Kazakhstan time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
*NASA astronaut Loral Oâ€ÖHara returned to Earth on April 6, 2024, after a
six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station. (NASA
image)*
Oâ€ÖHara launched Sept. 15, 2023, alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg
Kononenko, RN3DX, and Nikolai Chub, who both will remain aboard the space
station to complete a one-year mission. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya launched
aboard Soyuz MS-25 on March 23 along with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson,
who will remain aboard the orbiting laboratory until this fall.
Oâ€ÖHara spent a total of 204 days in space as part of her first spaceflight.
She completed approximately 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a journey of more
than 86.5 million miles. Oâ€ÖHara worked on scientific activities aboard the
space station, including investigating heart health, cancer treatments, and
space manufacturing techniques during her stay aboard the orbiting
laboratory.
Following post-landing medical checks, the crew returned to the recovery
staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Oâ€ÖHara then boarded a NASA plane
bound for her return to the agencyâ€Ös Johnson Space Center in Houston.
*(Oct. 4, 2023) â€ö The official Expedition 71 crew portrait with (bottom row
from left) Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin and NASA astronauts Mike
Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps. In the back row (from left)
are, NASA astronaut Loral Oâ€ÖHara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and
Oleg Kononenko. (NASA photo)*
With the undocking of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with Oâ€ÖHara, Novitskiy and
Vasilevskaya, Expedition 71 officially began aboard the station. NASA
astronauts Michael Barratt, KD5MIJ, Matthew Dominick, KCØTOR, Tracy C.
Dyson, and Jeannette Epps, KF5QNU, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai
Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, RZ3DSE, and Oleg Kononenko, RN3DX, make up
Expedition 71 and will remain on the orbiting laboratory until this fall.
[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]
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