O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya Land in Kazakhstan | International Space Station

O'Hara, Novitskiy & Vasilevskaya Land in Kazakhstan | International Space Station

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, right, are seen inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after they landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 6, 2024. 

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara gives a thumbs up inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 6, 2024. 

Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara is seen outside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya is seen outside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after she, Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia is helped out of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft just minutes after he, Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara of the United States, and cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

NASA astronaut Loral 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, at 3:17 a.m. EDT (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday, 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 at 11:55 a.m. when the Soyuz undocked from the International Space Station.

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.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Image Date: April 6, 2024

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