{"id":24920,"date":"2024-04-07T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=24920"},"modified":"2024-04-07T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:50:01","slug":"nasa-astronaut-loral-ohara-crewmates-return-from-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-astronaut-loral-ohara-crewmates-return-from-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Loral O\u2019Hara, Crewmates Return from Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara<\/a> returned to Earth after a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Saturday, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trio departed the space 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Hara launched<\/a> Sept. 15, 2023, alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Hara spent a total of 204 days in space as part of her first spaceflight. Novitskiy has logged a total of 545 days in space across four spaceflights and Vasilevskaya has spent 14 days in space as part of her first spaceflight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supporting NASA\u2019s Artemis campaign<\/a>, O\u2019Hara\u2019s mission helped prepare for exploration of the Moon and build foundations for crewed missions to Mars. She completed approximately 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a journey of more than 86.5 million miles. O\u2019Hara worked on scientific activities<\/a> aboard the space station, including investigating heart health, cancer treatments, and space manufacturing techniques during her stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following post-landing medical checks, the crew will return to the recovery staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. O\u2019Hara will then board a NASA plane bound for her return to the agency\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the undocking of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with O\u2019Hara, Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya, Expedition 71 officially began aboard the station. NASA astronauts Michael Barratt<\/a>, Matthew Dominick<\/a>, Tracy C. Dyson<\/a>, and Jeannette Epps<\/a>, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko make up Expedition 71 and will remain on the orbiting laboratory until this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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