| August 16, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-104 NASA Hosts Astronaut Loral O�??Hara�??s Prelaunch Interviews
NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara will virtually discuss her upcoming mission to the International Space Station during live interviews ahead of launch. O�??Hara will be available for limited interviews slated to begin at 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 23. The interviews will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency�??s website. Watch the interviews online at: Interested media must respond no later than 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21 to Sarah Volkman at sarah.e.volkman@nasa.gov or 281-483-9071. O�??Hara, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, is scheduled to launch to the space station Friday, Sept. 15, aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. She will be a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 70 station crew. O�??Hara is making her first spaceflight after selection as part of the 2017 NASA astronaut class. The Texas native earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and a Master of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. At the time of her astronaut selection, O�??Hara was a research engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, where she spent eight years working on the engineering and operations of underwater vehicles such as the human-occupied research submersible Alvin and the remotely operated vehicle Jason. O�??Hara may be followed on X @lunarloral. Follow updates on Expedition 70 at: -end- | ||
Press Contacts Joshua Finch Courtney Beasley | ||
NASA news releases and other information are available automatically by sending an e-mail to hqnews-join@newsletters.nasa. To unsubscribe from the list, send an e-mail message to hqnews-leave@newsletters.nasa. | ||
