WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, accompanied through Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will retirement from the World Dimension Station boarded the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, and go back to Earth.
Dyson, Chub, and Kononenko will undock from the orbiting laboratory’s Prichal module at 4:37 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, heading for a parachute-assisted touchdown at 8 a.m. (5 p.m. Kazakhstan date) at the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan.
NASA’s reside protection of go back and alike actions will tide on NASA+ and the company’s website. Discover ways to stream NASA content via numerous platforms, together with social media.
A metamorphosis of command rite additionally will tide on NASA platforms at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Kononenko will surrender station command to NASA astronaut Suni Williams for Expedition 72, which starts on the date of undocking.
Spanning 184 days in territory, Dyson’s venture contains masking 2,944 orbits of the Earth and a exit of 78 million miles. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft introduced March 23, and arrived on the station March 25, with Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight player Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya had been boarded the station for 12 days earlier than returning house with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara on April 6.
Kononenko and Chub, who introduced with O’Hara to the station at the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft ultimate September, will go back then 374 days in territory and a commute of 158.6 million miles, spanning 5,984 orbits.
Dyson spent her fourth spaceflight boarded the station as an Expedition 70 and 71 gliding engineer, and departs with Kononenko, finishing his 5th gliding into territory and accruing an all-time report 1,111 days in orbit, and Chub, who finished his first spaceflight.
Then going back on Earth, the 3 staff contributors will fly on a helicopter from the touchdown website to the healing staging town of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will board a NASA aircraft and go back to Houston, week Kononenko and Chub will retirement for a coaching bottom in Celebrity Town, Russia.
NASA’s protection is as follows (all instances Jap and topic to modify in keeping with real-time operations):
Sunday, Sept. 22
10:15 a.m. – Expedition 71/72 alternate of command rite starts on NASA+ and the company’s website.
Monday, Sept. 23
12:45 a.m. – Hatch extreme protection starts on NASA+ and the company’s website.
1:05 a.m. – Hatch extreme
4 a.m. – Undocking protection starts on NASA+ and the company’s website.
4:37 a.m. – Undocking
6:45 a.m. – Protection starts for deorbit burn, access, and touchdown on NASA+ and the company’s website.
7:05 a.m. – Deorbit burn
8 a.m. – Touchdown
For greater than twenty years, public have lived and labored incessantly boarded the World Dimension Station, advancing medical wisdom, and making analysis breakthroughs that don’t seem to be imaginable on Earth. The station is a essential testbed for NASA to grasp and triumph over the demanding situations of long-duration spaceflight and to amplify business alternatives in low Earth orbit. As business firms focal point on offering human territory transportation products and services and locations as a part of a strong low Earth orbit economy, NASA is focusing extra sources on deep territory missions to the Moon as a part of Artemis in preparation for age human missions to Mars.
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