Expedition 70 Crew: October 2023 Photos | International Space Station

Expedition 70 Crew: October 2023 Photos | International Space Station

Official portrait of NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O'Hara

NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O'Hara is pictured trying on her spacesuit and testing its components aboard the International Space Station's Quest airlock in preparation for an upcoming spacewalk.

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and Expedition 70 Commander Andreas Mogensen of Denmark is pictured trying on his spacesuit and testing its components aboard the International Space Station's Quest airlock in preparation for an upcoming spacewalk.

Expedition 70 Flight Engineers (from left) Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, both from NASA, pose for a portrait in front of the International Space Station's Cold Atom Lab. The physics research device observes the quantum behavior of atoms chilled to about one ten billionth of a degree above absolute zero—much colder than the average temperature of deep space.

(From left) Expedition 70 Commander Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA); and Flight Engineers Loral O'Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli, both from NASA; and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), pose for a portrait aboard the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module. The quartet is showing off crew active dosimeters that monitor the amount of radiation astronauts are exposed to in the microgravity environment.

The Expedition 70 crew is preparing for a pair of spacewalks for science and maintenance outside the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark are getting ready for their first spacewalk. The duo will use specialized tools to collect microbe samples from specific areas outside of the station.

Another spacewalk is scheduled with O’Hara and fellow NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli. They will remove and replace communications and solar array hardware.

NASA engineering and flight control teams are continuing to review data and video associated with a coolant leak from a backup radiator on the station’s Nauka multipurpose laboratory module (MLM). Two United States segment spacewalks have been postponed until the review is complete. New dates will be announced later.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

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)

Image Dates: Oct. 4-12, 2023

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