Space

NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Crewmates Come Back

.NASA rocketeer Tracy C. Dyson, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will definitely depart from the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 space probe, as well as go back to Earth.Dyson, Chub, as well as Kononenko will undock from the orbiting research laboratory's Prichal element at 4:37 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, heading for a parachute-assisted touchdown at 8 a.m. (5 p.m. Kazakhstan time) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.NASA's online coverage of yield and also related activities will certainly flow on NASA+ and the agency's website. Discover just how to stream NASA material through a wide array of systems, featuring social media sites.A change of command event also will stream on NASA platforms at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Kononenko will definitely surrender terminal command to NASA rocketeer Suni Williams for Exploration 72, which starts back then of undocking.Extending 184 days in space, Dyson's purpose features covering 2,944 orbits of the Earth and also a journey of 78 million miles. The Soyuz MS-25 space capsule released March 23, and came to the station March 25, along with Dyson, Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Novitskiy, and also spaceflight attendee Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy as well as Vasilevskaya were aboard the station for 12 times prior to coming back home along with NASA rocketeer Loral O'Hara on April 6.Kononenko and also Chub, that released with O'Hara to the terminal on the Soyuz MS-24 space probe last September, are going to come back after 374 times precede as well as a travel of 158.6 thousand miles, stretching over 5,984 orbits.Dyson devoted her fourth spaceflight aboard the station as a Trip 70 and also 71 trip designer, as well as leaves with Kononenko, accomplishing his fifth tour in to space and building up an everlasting document 1,111 days in orbit, as well as Chub, who completed his 1st spaceflight.After coming back to Planet, the 3 crew members are going to fly on a helicopter from the landing internet site to the recuperation setting up area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will board a NASA airplane as well as go back to Houston, while Kononenko and also Chub will certainly leave for an instruction base in Star Urban area, Russia.NASA's protection is actually as complies with (all times Eastern and also conditional based upon real-time procedures):.Sunday, Sept. 22.10:15 a.m.-- Trip 71/72 adjustment of command ceremony begins on NASA+ and the agency's web site.Monday, Sept. 23.12:45 a.m.-- Hatch closing coverage begins on NASA+ as well as the organization's internet site.1:05 a.m.-- Hatch closing.4 a.m.-- Undocking coverage starts on NASA+ and the organization's site.4:37 a.m.-- Undocking.6:45 a.m.-- Insurance coverage begins for deorbit burn, entry, as well as landing on NASA+ and also the organization's website.7:05 a.m.-- Deorbit shed.8 a.m.-- Touchdown.For much more than two decades, folks have actually stayed and also worked continually aboard the International Space Station, advancing technology, as well as creating investigation developments that are actually not possible on Earth. The station is a vital testbed for NASA to recognize and also get rid of the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to extend business opportunities in low Earth track. As office companies concentrate on providing individual area transit companies and also places as component of a durable low Planet track economic condition, NASA is centering much more sources on profound room missions to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential individual purposes to Mars.Discover more regarding International Spaceport station analysis as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- end-.Josh Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.