Overview
- NASA says Soyuz MS-27 will undock from the Prichal module at 8:41 p.m. EST on Dec. 8 and land in Kazakhstan at 12:04 a.m. EST on Dec. 9, with live coverage on NASA+, YouTube, and Amazon Prime.
- Station command transfers to NASA astronaut Mike Fincke during a Dec. 7 ceremony, with Expedition 74 beginning at the moment of undocking.
- All eight ISS ports were recently in use by two Dragons, two Soyuz, two Progress, JAXA’s HTV-X1, and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus, which controllers temporarily repositioned with Canadarm2 before reattaching it loaded with about 11,000 pounds of trash.
- Russia’s Baikonur Site 31/6 remains out of service after damage observed following the Soyuz MS-28 launch, creating uncertainty for the timing of upcoming Russian ISS flights until repairs are completed.
- Roscosmos has replaced Oleg Artemyev with Andrei Fedyayev on SpaceX Crew-12 without giving a reason, as independent reports allege an unconfirmed security-related incident during U.S. training.