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A NASA astronaut and 2 record-setting Russian cosmonauts are readied to head back to Planet on Monday (Sept. 23), and you can see their homecoming live.
Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, with Tracy C. Dyson, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub aboard, is set up to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday at 4:37 a.m. EDT (0837 GMT) and come down on the steppe of Kazakhstan concerning 3.5 hours later on.
You can see all the activity live below at Space.com, thanks to NASA, or straight through the room firm.
NASA’s protection will certainly start today (Sept. 22) at 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT), to reveal the change-of-command event noting completion of the orbiting laboratory’s Exploration 71 and the start of Exploration 72.
Kononenko, that regulates Exploration 71, will certainly hand the tricks of the ISS over to NASA astronaut Suni Williams. She and fellow NASA spaceflyer Butch Wilmore showed up on Boeing’s Starliner pill in June for an expected week-long keep however will certainly proceed surviving on the ISS till February 2025, after Starliner established issues and went back to Planet uncrewed.
NASa’s protection will certainly return to Monday at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) to reveal the closing of the hatches in between MS-25 and the ISS, which is anticipated to happen at 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 GMT). The program will certainly get once more at 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT) for undocking, however at 6:45 a.m. EDT (1045 GMT) for the Soyuz’s deorbit melt, entrance and touchdown.
If all goes according to strategy, goal will certainly happen at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), southeast of the Kazakh community of Dzhezkazgan, according to NASA authorities.
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Dyson came to the terminal aboard Soyuz MS-25 in March, together with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight individual Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Dyson’s present objective aboard the orbiting laboratory will certainly wind up enduring 184 days, according to NASA authorities.
Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya remained in orbit for simply 12 days, returning in April aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara. Soyuz MS-24 introduced in September 2023, bring O’Hara, Kononenko and Chub to the ISS.
Kononenko and Chub will certainly wind up investing 374 days on the terminal– a brand-new document for a solitary ISS objective, according to authorities with Roscosmos, Russia’s room firm. The old document, almost 371 days, was held by cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA’s Frank Rubio, that resided on the ISS from September 2022 to September 2023.
Kononenko currently holds the all-time document for the majority of overall time invested precede. When his present objective ends, he will certainly have accumulated 1,111 days in orbit, according to NASA.
