NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara Discusses Her International Space Station Mission

NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara Discusses Her International Space Station Mission

[Video Replay]: NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara discussed her upcoming mission to the International Space Station during live interviews on August 23, 2023. O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub (both of Russia), is scheduled to launch to the space station Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, 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. Long duration missions such as O’Hara’s help to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions. 

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.

Astronaut Loral O’Hara Official NASA Biography:

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

Follow updates on Expedition 70 at:

https://www.nasa.gov/station

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: 1  hour, 22 minutes

Release Date: Aug. 23, 2023

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