At 3:54 a.m. EDT NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, together with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, undocked from the Worldwide House Station within the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to start the journey again to Earth. The Soyuz is heading for a parachute-assisted touchdown Wednesday, Sept. 27, 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 6 a.m. on NASA Tv, the company’s website, and the NASA app with touchdown scheduled at 7:17 a.m. (5:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time).
After touchdown, the Soyuz MS-23 crew will break up up, as per normal crew return follow, with Rubio returning to NASA’s Johnson House Middle in Houston.
Expedition 70 formally started aboard the station on the time of undocking with NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European House Company) astronaut and new station commander Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Konstantin Borisov.
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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