NASA Space Technology
Might well well additionally unprejudiced 15, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY: J24-010
Expedition 70 Astronauts to Fragment Mission in NASA Welcome Dwelling Occasion
Four astronauts will take hang of part in a welcome dwelling ceremony at Home Heart Houston after recently getting again from a mission aboard the World Home Location.
NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Haraalongside with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and ESA (European Home Company) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, will allotment highlights from their mission starting at 5:30 p.m. CDT Thursday, Might well well additionally unprejudiced 16 all the plot in which thru a free, public match at NASA Johnson Home Heart’s customer heart. The crew may per chance also acknowledge key contributors to its mission success in an awards ceremony following their presentation.
The astronauts may per chance well be accessible for media interviews correct now earlier than the match. Reporters may per chance per chance even unprejudiced ask an in-particular person interview no later than 5 p.m. Might well well additionally unprejudiced 16 by emailing Dana Davis at [email protected].
Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov launched as allotment of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission, lifting off Aug. 26, 2023. The crew spent 199 days in pickle, polishing off hundreds of scientific experiments and declaring the orbiting laboratory. Mogensen served as commander for Expedition 70. Mogensen and Furukawa have faith logged 209 and 300 and sixty six days in pickle respectively over the route of their careers. It became as soon as the precious spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov. Crew-7 returned to Earth on March 12.
O’Hara flew with a world crew, launching aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on Sept. 15, 2023. The six-month learn mission became as soon as the precious spaceflight of her profession, and he or she logged 204 days in pickle one day of Expedition 69 and 70. She carried out one spacewalk alongside Moghbeli, spending 6 hours, 42 minutes, suited up exterior of the pickle situation. She saw the advent of eight visiting autos and the departure of seven over the route of her mission. She returned to Earth on April 6.
Participants of the Expedition 70 crew participated within the CIPHER (Complement of Built-in Protocols for Human Exploration Analysis on Varying Mission Periods) investigation. It examines physiological and psychological changes that people endure all the plot in which thru spaceflight. The crew also tended to tomato plant life grown for the Plant Habitat-06 investigation to gaze how spaceflight impacts plant immune purpose and manufacturing. Expedition 70 also saw the free up of two minute satellites known as CubeSats from the pickle situation. Both had been created by students in Japan.
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Chelsey Ballarte
Johnson Home Heart, Houston
281-483-5111
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Dana Davis
Johnson Home Heart, Houston
281-244-0933
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