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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will close the hatch between the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and the International Space Station at 5:10 p.m. EST.
The spacecraft will undock from the station’s Prichal module at approximately 8:41 p.m., headed for a parachute-assisted landing at 12:04 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9 (10:04 a.m. local time in Kazakhstan), on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan.
Watch NASA’s live undocking coverage at 8:15 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.
Kim and his crewmates are completing a 245-day stay aboard the station. At the conclusion of their mission, they will have orbited Earth 3,920 times and traveled nearly 104 million miles. The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft launched and docked with the station on April 8.
This was the first flight for Kim and Zubritsky to the orbiting laboratory, while Ryzhikov is ending his third trip to space. Ryzhikov will have logged a total of 603 days in space, ranking him 13th all time.
Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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