1 of 3|NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara (C) is revealed after the landing of a Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft Saturday in Kazakhstan. She and fellow Expedition 70 members Oleg Novitskiy of Russia and Belarus spaceflight individual Marina Vasilevskaya landed in a remote location near the town of Zhezkazgan following a remain on the International Space Station. Picture offered by Roscosmos/EPA-EFE
April 6 (UPI)– NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Belarus’s Marina Vasilevskay and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky effectively went back to Earth Saturday after hanging out on the International Space Station.
The trio landed near Karaganda, Kazakhstan, at 3:17 a.m. EDT after investing 3.5 hours aboard a Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, the Russian news company TASS reported.
They left the International Space Station at 11:54 p.m. EDT Friday.
O’Hara and Vasilevskaya finished their very first objectives aboard the International Space Station, while Novitsky finished his 3rd. Vasilevskaya is Belarus’ very first resident to go into area.
O’Hara got here on the spaceport station on Sept. 15 to carry out a six-month research study objective throughout her very first spaceflight. She invested 204 days in area while orbiting the Earth 3,264 times and covering a range of more than 86.5 million miles, according to NASA.
O’Hara’s objective remained in assistance of NASA’s Artemis project to check out the Moon to make clinical discoveries, advance innovation and find out how to live and deal with another heavenly body.
While she was on the ISS, O’Hara studied heart health, area production strategies and cancer treatments.
NASA authorities stated O’Hara’s objective will assist the area firm get ready for additional expedition of the Moon and ultimate crewed objectives to Mars.
Vasilevskaya and Novitsky reached the spaceport station on March 23 for two-week objectives. Novitsky has actually made 4 spaceflights and invested a combined overall of 545 days in area throughout the 4 objectives.
Vasilevskaya is a flight attendant for Belavia Airlines and has an overall of 14 days in area.
The ISS stays completely manned with NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson and Jeannette Epps.
Cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenkoalso are likewise aboard the Earth-orbiting ISS till fall.
