Expedition 70: Liftoff of Russian Soyuz Rocket | International Space Station

Expedition 70: Liftoff of Russian Soyuz Rocket | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia successfully launched to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft atop a Soyuz rocket at 11:44 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (8:44 p.m. Baikonur time) on Sept. 15, 2023. 

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara has begun a six-month mission aboard the station, and Kononenko and Chub will both spend a year on the orbital outpost. This was the first spaceflight for O'Hara.

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. 15, 2023

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