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MEDIA ADVISORY M23-113
*NASA Sets Coverage for Launch, Docking of New Space Station Crew*
NASA astronaut candidate Loral O’Hara answers a question in the Webb
Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
*/Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky
A NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are set to launch to the
International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 15. The U.S. space agency will
provide full coverage of launch and crew’s arrival at the microgravity
laboratory.
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara [1] and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and
Nikolai Chub are scheduled to lift off on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-24
spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:44 a.m. EDT (8:44
p.m. Baikonur time).
Coverage will begin at 10:45 a.m. on NASA Television, the NASA app [2], and
the agency’s website. Watch online at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live [3]
O’Hara, who will begin a six-month mission aboard the station, and
Kononenko and Chub, who will both spend a year on the orbital outpost, will
fly on a quick two-orbit, three-hour trajectory that will result in a docking
to the station’s Rassvet module at 2:56 p.m. A short time later, hatches
between the station and the Soyuz will open and the crew will be welcomed
aboard.
The trio will join the space station’s Expedition 69 crew of NASA
astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitri
Petelin, Konstantin Borisov, and expedition Sergey Prokopyev, as well ESA
(European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen and JAXA (Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.
This will be the first spaceflight for O’Hara and Chub, and the fifth
flight for Kononenko.
Mission coverage is as follows (all times Eastern):
10:45 a.m. – Launch coverage begins
2 p.m. – Rendezvous and docking coverage begins
4:45 p.m. – Hatch opening and welcome remarks coverage begins
Keep up with the International Space Station, its research, and crew at:
*https://www.nasa.gov/station [4]*
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[1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/loral-o-hara-nasa-astronaut
[2] https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html
[3] https://www.nasa.gov/live
[4] https://www.nasa.gov/station