A NASA astronaut and two record-setting Russian cosmonauts are set to move again to Earth on Monday (Sept. 23), and you may watch their homecoming dwell.
Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, with Tracy C. Dyson, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub aboard, is scheduled to undock from the Worldwide House Station (ISS) on Monday at 4:37 a.m. EDT (0837 GMT) and land on the steppe of Kazakhstan about 3.5 hours later.
You’ll be able to watch all of the motion dwell right here at House.com, courtesy of NASA, or straight by way of the area company.
NASA’s protection will start as we speak (Sept. 22) at 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT), to indicate the change-of-command ceremony marking the tip of the orbiting lab’s Expedition 71 and the start of Expedition 72.
Kononenko, who instructions Expedition 71, will hand the keys of the ISS over to NASA astronaut Suni Williams. She and fellow NASA spaceflyer Butch Wilmore arrived on Boeing’s Starliner capsule in June for a supposed week-long keep however will proceed dwelling on the ISS till February 2025, after Starliner developed issues and returned to Earth uncrewed.
NASa’s protection will resume Monday at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) to indicate the closing of the hatches between MS-25 and the ISS, which is predicted to happen at 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 GMT). The present will choose up once more at 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT) for undocking, then once more at 6:45 a.m. EDT (1045 GMT) for the Soyuz’s deorbit burn, entry and touchdown.
If all goes in line with plan, landing will happen at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), southeast of the Kazakh city of Dzhezkazgan, in line with NASA officers.
Dyson arrived on the station aboard Soyuz MS-25 in March, together with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Dyson’s present mission aboard the orbiting lab will find yourself lasting 184 days, in line with NASA officers.
Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya stayed in orbit for simply 12 days, coming dwelling in April aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara. Soyuz MS-24 launched in September 2023, carrying O’Hara, Kononenko and Chub to the ISS.
Kononenko and Chub will find yourself spending 374 days on the station — a brand new report for a single mission, in line with officers with Roscosmos, Russia’s area company. The previous report, almost 371 days, was held by cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA’s Frank Rubio, who lived on the ISS from September 2022 to September 2023.
Kononenko already holds the all-time report for many whole time spent in area. When his present mission ends, he may have accrued 1,111 days in orbit, in line with NASA.
