Expedition 70 Astronaut Loral O'Hara Answers Media Questions Before Launch - Aug. 23, 2023

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.