Expedition 70 Space Station Crew Undergoes Final Training Outside Moscow

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.