At 11:54 p.m. EDT on Friday, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, undocked from the Worldwide Area Station within the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft to start the journey again to Earth. The Soyuz is heading for a parachute-assisted touchdown Saturday, April 6, on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the distant city of Dzhezkazgan.
NASA protection of the crew’s deorbit burn and touchdown will start at 2 a.m. on NASA+, NASA TV, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s website with touchdown scheduled at 3:17 a.m. (12:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time).
After touchdown, the Soyuz MS-24 crew will cut up up, as per normal crew return apply, with O’Hara returning to NASA’s Johnson Area Middle in Houston.
With the undocking of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with O’Hara, Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya, Expedition 71 formally started aboard the station. NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson, and Jeannette Epps in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko make up Expedition 71 and can stay on the station till this fall.
Study 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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