Reside protection of NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus’ return to Earth is underway.
The trio started the journey again to Earth within the early morning hours when the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft undocked from the Worldwide House Station’s Rassvet module at 11:54 p.m. EDT. The trio are heading for a parachute-assisted touchdown on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the distant city of Dzhezkazgan, at 3:17 a.m. (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time).
Expedition 71 has formally begun aboard the station with NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson, and Jeannette Epps in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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