{"id":640243,"date":"2024-04-02T13:12:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=press-release&p=640243"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:12:06","slug":"nasa-sets-coverage-for-astronaut-loral-ohara-crewmates-return","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-sets-coverage-for-astronaut-loral-ohara-crewmates-return\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Loral O\u2019Hara, Crewmates Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\"> NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara uses a portable glovebag to replace components on a biological printer, the BioFabrication Facility (BFF), that is testing the printing of organ-like tissues in microgravity.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Three crew members are scheduled to begin their return to Earth on Friday, April 5, from the International Space Station. NASA will provide live coverage of their departure from the orbital complex and landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA astronaut Loral O\u2019Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus will depart from the station\u2019s Rassvet module in the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft at 11:55 p.m. EDT April 5, and will head for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:18 a.m. Saturday, April 6 (12:18 p.m. Kazakhstan time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coverage will begin at 8 p.m. on April 5 with farewells and the Soyuz hatch closure on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.nasa.gov\/scheduled-video\/soyuz-ms-24-space-station-farewells-and-hatch-closing\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA+<\/a>, NASA Television, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/apps\/\">NASA app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NASA\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, and the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">website<\/a>. Learn how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/general\/how-to-stream-nasa-tv\/\">stream NASA TV<\/a> through a variety of platforms including social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Hara is completing a mission spanning 204 days in space that covered 3,264 orbits of the Earth and 86.5 million miles. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya launched with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson to the station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on March 23. Dyson will remain aboard the station for a six-month research mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After landing, the three crew members will fly on a helicopter from the landing site to the recovery staging city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. O\u2019Hara then will depart back to Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, April 5<\/strong><br>8 p.m.: NASA coverage of farewells and hatch closure of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft begins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:30 p.m.: NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.nasa.gov\/scheduled-video\/soyuz-ms-24-space-station-undocking\/\" rel=\"noopener\">coverage<\/a> for undocking continues<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:55 p.m.: Undocking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, April 6<\/strong><br>2 a.m.: NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.nasa.gov\/scheduled-video\/soyuz-ms-24-space-station-deorbit-burn-and-landing\/\" rel=\"noopener\">coverage <\/a>of deorbit burn and landing begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2:24 a.m.: Deorbit burn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3:18 a.m.: Landing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA\u2019s coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\"><strong>http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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NASA will provide live coverage of their departure from the orbital complex and landing. NASA astronaut Loral O\u2019Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus will depart from the station\u2019s Rassvet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":640250,"template":"","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":["283564"],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"M24-046","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"MEDIA ADVISORY","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[]},"categories":[2656,2735,11285,2655],"news-tags":[12376],"internal-terms":[],"coauthors":[12839],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Loral O\u2019Hara, Crewmates Return","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-sets-coverage-for-astronaut-loral-ohara-crewmates-return\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-sets-coverage-for-astronaut-loral-ohara-crewmates-return\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53336444473-3ee9ff6091-k.jpg"},"articleSection":"Humans in Space","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abbey A. 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