TWO NASA CREW-7+ NEWS CONFERENCES, July 25, 2023, JSC, 12:30 pm ET and 2:00 pm ET

NASA will hold two news conferences on July 25, 2023 at Johnson Space Center in preparation for the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station, Crew-7. Launch is targeted for August 15, 2023.

Crew-7 is comprised of Jasmine Moghbeli (NASA), Andreas Mogensen (ESA/Denmark), Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA) and Konstantin Borisov (Roscosmos).

In addition, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, who is scheduled to launch to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz MS-24, in September will join the event. Her launch on September 15 will be with two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub.

The two briefings on July 25 — which will air on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website — are as follows:

12:30 pm ET: Mission Overview

• Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Johnson
• Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson
• Frank De Winne, manager, International Space Station Program, ESA
• Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, Human Space Flight Technology Directorate, JAXA

2:00 pm ET: Crew News Conference

• Loral O’Hara, NASA astronaut, Soyuz MS-24 flight engineer
• Jasmin Moghbeli, NASA astronaut, Crew-7 spacecraft commander
• Andreas Mogensen, ESA astronaut, Crew-7 pilot
• Satoshi Furukawa, JAXA astronaut, Crew-7 mission specialist
• Konstantin Borisov, Roscosmos cosmonaut, Crew-7 mission specialist