Overview
- Jonny Kim, Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky will undock from the Prichal module at 8:41 p.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 8, for a parachute-assisted landing at 12:04 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 9, southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
- After landing, recovery teams will fly the crew to Karaganda; Kim will return to Houston on a NASA aircraft, while Ryzhikov and Zubritsky will proceed to Star City, Russia.
- Station leadership will transfer during a 10:30 a.m. EST ceremony on Sunday, Dec. 7, when Ryzhikov hands command to NASA astronaut Mike Fincke to begin Expedition 74 at undocking.
- The ISS recently reached a first-of-its-kind configuration with eight spacecraft attached, including two Dragons, Cygnus, HTV‑X1, two Soyuz and two Progress, after Cygnus was temporarily moved and reberthed using Canadarm2.
- Roscosmos reports Baikonur Site 31/6 is out of service following a launch-structure collapse after Soyuz MS-28, and the agency has replaced Oleg Artemyev with Andrei Fedyayev on SpaceX Crew-12 as reports of a security-related reason remain unconfirmed.