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RELEASE 23-107
*NASA Astronaut, Crewmates Reach Space Station for Science Expedition*
The Soyuz rocket is launched with Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara,
and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, Friday, Sept. 15,
2023, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
*/Credits: NASA/*
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara [1] and two cosmonauts safely arrived at the
International Space Station Friday, Sept. 15, bringing its number of
residents to 10 for the coming week.
The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft carrying O’Hara, as well as Oleg Kononenko and
Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, docked to the station’s Rassvet module at
2:53 p.m. EDT. Docking occurred about three hours after the crew’s 11:44
a.m. launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
O’Hara, Kononenko, and Chub will join the Expedition 69 [2] crew when
hatches open at 5:10 p.m. O’Hara, who is beginning a six-month stay aboard
the orbital outpost, and Kononenko and Chub, who will both spend a year on
the orbital outpost will work on science and research in technology
development, Earth science, biology, and human research for the benefit of
all. This marks the first spaceflight for O’Hara, the fifth for Kononenko,
and the first for Chub.
Expedition 70 will begin Wednesday, Sept. 27, following the departure of
record-breaking NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey
Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin. Rubio recently broke the record for longest
single spaceflight by an American. Following a yearlong stay aboard the
orbiting laboratory, the trio will land in Kazakhstan on Sept. 27, at which
point Rubio will have spent a total of 371 days in space—the longest single
spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut.
Learn more about space station activities at:
*https://www.nasa.gov/station [3]*
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[1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/loral-o-hara-nasa-astronaut
[2] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition69/index.html
[3] https://www.nasa.gov/station