HOUSTON, May 15, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Four astronauts will participate in a welcome home
ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from a
mission aboard the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Jasmin
Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, along with JAXA (Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and ESA (European Space
Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen,
will share highlights from their mission beginning at 5:30 p.m. CDT Thursday, May 16 during a free,
public event at NASA Johnson Space Center's visitor center. The
crew will also recognize key contributors to its mission success in
an awards ceremony following their presentation.
The astronauts will be available for media interviews
immediately before the event. Reporters may request an in-person
interview no later than 5 p.m.
May 16 by emailing Dana Davis at dana.l.davis@nasa.gov.
Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut
Konstantin Borisov launched as part
of NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission, lifting off Aug. 26, 2023. The crew spent 199 days in space,
completing hundreds of scientific experiments and maintaining the
orbiting laboratory. Mogensen served as commander for Expedition
70. Mogensen and Furukawa have logged 209 and 366 days in space
respectively over the course of their careers. It was the first
spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov. Crew-7 returned to Earth on
March 12.
O'Hara flew with an international crew, launching aboard the
Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on Sept. 15,
2023. The six-month research mission was the first
spaceflight of her career, and she logged 204 days in space across
Expedition 69 and 70. She conducted one spacewalk alongside
Moghbeli, spending 6 hours, 42 minutes, suited up outside of the
space station. She saw the arrival of eight visiting vehicles and
the departure of seven over the course of her mission. She returned
to Earth on April 6.
Members of the Expedition 70 crew participated in the CIPHER
(Complement of Integrated Protocols for Human Exploration Research
on Varying Mission Durations) investigation. It examines
physiological and psychological changes that humans undergo during
spaceflight. The crew also tended to tomato plants grown for the
Plant Habitat-06 investigation to see how spaceflight affects plant
immune function and production. Expedition 70 also saw the release
of two small satellites called CubeSats from the space station.
Both were created by students in Japan.
Stay current on space station activities by following
@space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the station
Facebook and Instagram accounts and the space station blog.
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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