Three Russian cosmonauts will return to Earth Thursday (Sept. 29), and you’ll watch the entire thing dwell.
Expedition 67 cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov will fly again to Earth on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Worldwide House Station (ISS).
Their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the Prichal module of the ISS at 3:34 a.m. EDT (0734 GMT) and arrive in Kazakhstan, outdoors of the distant city of Dzhezkazgan, at 6:57 a.m. EDT (1057 GMT or 4:57 a.m. native time), NASA officers (opens in new tab) mentioned.
Reside streaming of the undocking and re-entry will probably be out there right here at House.com, through NASA Tv (opens in new tab), in addition to on the company’s web site, app, and social media. Undocking protection will begin at 3:15 a.m. EDT (0715 GMT) and touchdown protection at 5:45 a.m. EDT (0945 GMT).
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The trio’s launch to the ISS on March 18 befell lower than a month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, and their Soyuz held the primary all-Russian cosmonaut crew in 22 years.
Expedition 67 featured quite a few spacewalks to arrange and combine the European Robotic Arm on the Russian facet of the area station, including on to robotic capabilities utilized by Canada’s Canadarm2 and Japan’s Kibo module arm. (One Aug. 17 spacewalk was lower brief attributable to issues with Artemyev’s go well with, which had been resolved earlier than the subsequent tour.)
Throughout a change of command ceremony on Wednesday (Sept. 28), outgoing Expedition 67 commander Artemyev appeared to allude to the continuing conflict. “Ultimately, our conflict will finish in every single place,” he mentioned.
Expedition 68 commander Samantha Cristoforetti is the primary European girl to helm the ISS and the fifth European to take action total. After Artemyev, Matveev and Korsakov depart, she’ll share the ISS with NASA astronauts Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins and Kjell Lindgren and Frank Rubio, together with cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.
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The following crewed launch to the ISS is predicted to occur no ahead of Oct. 5. Crew-5, a mission that can happen aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, is slated to launch from NASA’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida.
The multinational Crew-5 will embrace a seat for Anna Kikina, the primary Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS on a business American spacecraft, together with NASA’s Nicole Mann (who will change into the primary Native American girl in area), NASA’s Josh Cassada and Japan’s Koichi Wakata.
Crew-5’s launch has been delayed at the very least two days because of the potential “catastrophic” arrival of Hurricane Ian in Florida, as some officers have termed the storm. NASA has emphasised that the brand new launch date is tentative and is dependent upon the middle’s restoration after the hurricane, which has introduced Class 4 winds to the state.
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