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*NASA Hosts Astronaut Loral O’Hara’s Prelaunch Interviews*
2017 NASA Astronaut Candidate Loral O’Hara
*/Credits: NASA/Bill Stafford/*
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara [1] will virtually discuss her upcoming mission
to the International Space Station during live interviews ahead of launch.
O’Hara will be available for limited interviews slated to begin at 9 a.m.
EDT Wednesday, Aug. 23. The interviews will air live on NASA Television, the
NASA app [2], and the agency’s website. Watch the interviews online at:
http://www.nasa.gov/live [3]
Interested media must respond no later than 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21 to Sarah
O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, is
scheduled to launch to the space station [5] Friday, Sept. 15, aboard the
Roscosmos Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
She will be a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 70 station crew.
O’Hara is making her first spaceflight after selection as part of the 2017
NASA astronaut class. The Texas native earned a Bachelor of Science degree in
aerospace engineering at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and a Master of
Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue University in West
Lafayette, Indiana.
At the time of her astronaut selection, O’Hara was a research engineer at
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, where she spent eight
years working on the engineering and operations of underwater vehicles such
as the human-occupied research submersible Alvin and the remotely operated
vehicle Jason. O’Hara may be followed on X @lunarloral [6].
Follow updates on Expedition 70 at:
*https://www.nasa.gov/station* [7]
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[1] https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/loral-o-hara
[2] https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html
[3] http://www.nasa.gov/live
[5] http://www.nasa.gov/station
[7] https://www.nasa.gov/station