Overview
- NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky are scheduled to leave the station at 8:15 p.m. EST after nearly 245 days in orbit.
- Their Soyuz is targeting a 12:04 a.m. EST touchdown on the steppe near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
- Live coverage begins at 4:45 p.m. EST with hatch closure followed by the undocking sequence.
- Kim and Zubritsky are first-time flyers, while Ryzhikov is completing his third mission after commanding Expedition 73; the trio logged nearly 4,000 orbits and over 100 million miles.
- Seven crew members will remain aboard the ISS, and Roscosmos is assessing damage to Baikonur’s crew pad from a recent Soyuz launch incident that could affect future schedules.