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Expedition 70 Space Station Crew Undergoes Final Training Outside Moscow NASA Video 196 Likes 11,970 Views Aug 23 2023 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara conducted final qualification training August 21 and 22 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for their upcoming International Space Station mission. Their backups, cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, joined them for the training sessions. Kononenko, Chub, and O’Hara are scheduled to launch Friday, Sept. 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Join NASA as we go forward to the Moon and on to Mars -- discover the latest on Earth, the Solar System and beyond with a weekly update in your inbox. Subscribe at: www.nasa.gov/subscribe

From growing tomatoes to studying cosmic rays to observing quantum mechanics, the four crew members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission contributed to more than 100 scientific investigations and technology demonstrations during their five months aboard the International Space Station. These experiments help prepare humans for future space exploration missions while bringing benefits for humanity back to Earth. Learn more about the science of Crew-5 as our astronauts get ready to head home: https://go.nasa.gov/3T2gbgw