NASA Astronaut Loral O’Hara Post-Flight News Conference: April 15, 2024 | JSC
Event starts at 2 minute mark: After spending six-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara participates in a news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
A look at some of the scientific activities O’Hara conducted during her mission: https://go.nasa.gov/43tVfUV
O’Hara ended her time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan on April 6, 2024.
O’Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, began the journey back to Earth when the Soyuz undocked from the International Space Station earlier in the day.
O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending 204 days in low Earth orbit.
During her 204 days aboard the station, O’Hara experienced:
Approximately 3,264 orbits of Earth
Approximately 86,555,554 statute miles traveled
Eight spacecraft visiting the International Space Station, including two Roscosmos Progress cargo ships, one Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft, one Roscosmos Soyuz, two crewed SpaceX Dragons, and two uncrewed SpaceX Dragons.
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: 22 minutes
Release Date: April 15, 2024
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