A Blessing for Expedition 70 in Kazakhstan | International Space Station

A Blessing for Expedition 70 in Kazakhstan | International Space Station

A Russian Orthodox Priest blessed the Soyuz Rocket and personnel, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 31 in Kazakhstan.

A Russian Orthodox priest blessed the Soyuz rocket and personnel for Expedition 70 on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 31 in Kazakhstan.

A NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts (Russia) are set to launch to the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia 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). 

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.

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.

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/Bill Ingalls

Capture Date: Sept. 14, 2023

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