Expedition 70 International Space Station Crew: Final Training at Star City, Russia

Expedition 70 International Space Station Crew: Final Training at Star City, Russia

Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos (Russia) and NASA Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara conducted final qualification training August 21 and 22, 2023, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for their upcoming International Space Station mission. Their backups, cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, joined them for the training sessions. Kononenko, Chub, and O’Hara are scheduled to launch Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

Astronaut Loral O’Hara Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/loral-o-hara-nasa-astronaut

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 9 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 23, 2023

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