Space

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

.NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, accompanied by Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub and also Oleg Kononenko, are going to depart from the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 space capsule, as well as come back to Earth.Dyson, Chub, as well as Kononenko is going to undock coming from the orbiting 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 opportunity) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan.NASA's live coverage of yield as well as related tasks will stream on NASA+ and also the firm's website. Find out exactly how to stream NASA content by means of a range of systems, including social media.An adjustment of demand service additionally are going to flow on NASA platforms at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Kononenko will surrender station command to NASA astronaut Suni Williams for Expedition 72, which starts at the time of undocking.Stretching over 184 times in space, Dyson's objective features dealing with 2,944 tracks of the Earth and also a quest of 78 million kilometers. The Soyuz MS-25 space capsule introduced March 23, and reached the station March 25, with Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy and also Vasilevskaya were aboard the terminal for 12 days just before returning home with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on April 6.Kononenko as well as Chub, who introduced along with O'Hara to the station on the Soyuz MS-24 space probe final September, are going to come back after 374 days precede and a vacation of 158.6 thousand miles, spanning 5,984 orbits.Dyson invested her fourth spaceflight aboard the terminal as a Trip 70 and 71 air travel designer, and also departs along with Kononenko, accomplishing his fifth trip right into space as well as accruing an everlasting file 1,111 times in orbit, and Chub, that completed his 1st spaceflight.After coming back to Planet, the three staff participants are going to soar on a chopper coming from the touchdown web site to the healing staging metropolitan area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will board a NASA airplane and come back to Houston, while Kononenko and also Chub will certainly depart for a training base in Celebrity Urban area, Russia.NASA's insurance coverage is as observes (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time procedures):.Sunday, Sept. 22.10:15 a.m.-- Expedition 71/72 improvement of command ceremony begins on NASA+ and also the organization's site.Monday, Sept. 23.12:45 a.m.-- Hatch closing protection begins on NASA+ and also the firm's web site.1:05 a.m.-- Hatch closing.4 a.m.-- Undocking protection begins on NASA+ as well as the firm's internet site.4:37 a.m.-- Undocking.6:45 a.m.-- Coverage begins for deorbit burn, entry, and also touchdown on NASA+ and also the company's web site.7:05 a.m.-- Deorbit burn.8 a.m.-- Landing.For greater than twenty years, folks have actually resided as well as worked regularly aboard the International Space Station, accelerating technology, as well as bring in study discoveries that are actually not possible in the world. The place is a critical testbed for NASA to comprehend and also get over the challenges of long-duration spaceflight as well as to grow commercial options in reduced The planet track. As business firms pay attention to delivering individual space transit companies and also places as aspect of a strong reduced Earth orbit economic condition, NASA is actually concentrating even more sources on deep room objectives to the Moon as portion of Artemis to prepare for future human purposes to Mars.Learn more regarding International Space Station investigation as well as procedures at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Josh Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Room Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.