NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara ended her time in area with a parachute-assisted touchdown within the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the distant city of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, April 6.
O’Hara, together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, started the journey again to Earth at 11:55 a.m. when the Soyuz undocked from the Worldwide House Station.
O’Hara arrived on the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.
Throughout her 204 days aboard the station, O’Hara skilled:
- Roughly 3,264 orbits of Earth
- Roughly 86,555,554 statute miles traveled
- Eight spacecraft visiting the Worldwide House Station, together with two Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, one Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, one Roscosmos Soyuz, two crewed SpaceX Dragons, and two uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.
Expedition 71 has formally begun aboard the station with NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson, and Jeannette Epps in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.
Study extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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