Preparing for Crew Member Departures: April 2024 | International Space Station

Preparing for Crew Member Departures: April 2024 | International Space Station

Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O Hara is pictured inside the cupola the International Space Station s window to the world as the orbital complex soared 259 miles above Turkmenistan.

Expedition 70 Flight Engineers (from left) Tracy C. Dyson and Jeanette Epps, both NASA astronauts, are pictured aboard the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module.

Expedition 70 Flight Engineers from left: Loral O Hara and Tracy C. Dyson, both NASA astronauts, review documents aboard the International Space Station.

Expedition 70 Flight Engineers from left: Mike Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Loral O'Hara participate in an Earth photography session inside the cupola the International Space Station's window to the world. The orbital complex was soaring 259 miles above West Virginia in the United States at the time of this photograph.

Expedition 70 Flght Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O Hara's image is refracted in a water bubble she squeezed from a drinking bag aboard the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module.

Expedition 70 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara conducts leak checks and tries on the Sokol launch and entry suit she will wear when she returns to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-24 crew ship docked to the International Space Station's Rassvet module.

Pictured from left, Soyuz MS-24 crew members NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Russia pose for a portrait at the Garagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in their Sokol launch and entry suits.

The Soyuz MS-25 crew ship is pictured docked to the International Space Station's Prichal docking module as the orbital complex soared 263 miles above the South Pacific Ocean.

Three International Space Station residents are in their final full day aboard the orbital outpost focusing their attention on Friday night’s departure. The rest of the Expedition 70 crew continued its human research activities ensuring crews remain healthy in space.

NASA Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara is nearing the end of her spaceflight that began on Sept. 15, 2023. She is returning to Earth with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Russia and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-24 crew ship. The trio will undock from the Rassvet module at 11:54 p.m. EDT on Friday and parachute to landing inside the Soyuz in Kazakhstan at 3:17 a.m. on Saturday (12:17 p.m. Kazakh time).

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia), Oleg Novitskiy (Russia), Marina Vasilevskaya (Belarus)

NASA: Loral O'Hara, Matthew Dominik, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps

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 Credits: NASA's Johnson Space/Andrey Shelepin

Image Dates: Oct. 13, 2022-April 4, 2024

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