April 2, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-046
NASA Sets Coverage for
Astronaut Loral O’Hara, Crewmates Return
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the
BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the printing of organ-like tissues in microgravity.
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Three crew members are scheduled to begin their return to Earth on Friday, April 5, from the International Space Station. NASA will provide live coverage of their
departure from the orbital complex and landing.
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus will depart from the station’s Rassvet
module in the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at 11:55 p.m. EDT April 5, and will head for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:18 a.m. Saturday, April 6 (12:18 p.m. Kazakhstan time).
Coverage will begin at 8 p.m. on April 5 with farewells and the Soyuz hatch closure on
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and the agency’s website.
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O’Hara is completing a mission spanning 204 days in space that covered 3,264 orbits of the Earth and 86.5 million miles. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya launched with
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson to the station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on March 23. Dyson will remain aboard the station for a six-month research mission.
After landing, the three crew members will fly on a helicopter from the landing site to the recovery staging city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. O’Hara then will depart
back to Houston.
NASA’s coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):
Friday, April 5
8 p.m.: NASA coverage of farewells and hatch closure of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft begins
11:30 p.m.: NASA
coverage
for undocking continues
11:55 p.m.: Undocking
Saturday, April 6
2 a.m.: NASA
coverage
of deorbit burn and landing begins.
2:24 a.m.: Deorbit burn
3:18 a.m.: Landing
Learn more about the International Space Station, its research, and crew, at:
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