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NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara discussed her upcoming mission to the International Space Station during live interviews on August 23. 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. Long duration missions such as O’Hara’s help to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions.