NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara went back to Earth after a six-month research study objective aboard the International Space Station on Saturday, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight individual Marina Vasilevskaya.
The trio left the spaceport station aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at 11:54 p.m. EDT on April 5, and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 3:17 a.m., April 6 (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
O’Hara introduced Sept. 15, 2023, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who both will stay aboard the spaceport station to finish a 1 year objective. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya released aboard Soyuz MS-25 on March 23 in addition to NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, who will stay aboard the orbiting lab till this fall.
O’Hara invested an overall of 204 days in area as part of her very first spaceflight. Novitskiy has actually logged an overall of 545 days in area throughout 4 spaceflights and Vasilevskaya has actually invested 14 days in area as part of her very first spaceflight.
Supporting NASA’s Artemis project, O’Hara’s objective assisted get ready for expedition of the Moon and construct structures for crewed objectives to Mars. She finished around 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a journey of more than 86.5 million miles. O’Hara dealt with clinical activities aboard the spaceport station, consisting of examining heart health, cancer treatments, and area production strategies throughout her stay aboard the orbiting lab.
Following post-landing medical checks, the team will go back to the healing staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. O’Hara will then board a NASA aircraft bound for her go back to the firm’s Johnson Space Center 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 comprise Expedition 71 and will stay on the orbiting lab up until this fall.
Find out more about spaceport station activities by following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, along with the ISS Facebook, ISS Instagram, and the spaceport station blog site.
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