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NASA Puts Protection for Rocketeer Tracy C. Dyson, Crewmates Return

.NASA rocketeer Tracy C. Dyson, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub as well as Oleg Kononenko, will certainly depart from the International Spaceport Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 space probe, and also go back to Earth.Dyson, Chub, as well as Kononenko will certainly undock coming from the orbiting lab's Prichal element at 4:37 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, heading for a parachute-assisted landing at 8 a.m. (5 p.m. Kazakhstan opportunity) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.NASA's online insurance coverage of return and relevant tasks are going to flow on NASA+ as well as the company's internet site. Know exactly how to stream NASA material by means of an assortment of platforms, including social media.An improvement of order ceremony also will certainly stream on NASA platforms at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Kononenko will certainly turn over station demand to NASA astronaut Suni Williams for Exploration 72, which begins at the moment of undocking.Reaching 184 times precede, Dyson's goal consists of dealing with 2,944 orbits of the Planet and a quest of 78 million kilometers. The Soyuz MS-25 space probe launched March 23, as well as got to the station March 25, along with Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight attendee Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy as well as Vasilevskaya were actually aboard the station for 12 days before returning home with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on April 6.Kononenko and Chub, who launched along with O'Hara to the station on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft final September, will certainly come back after 374 times in space and a vacation of 158.6 million kilometers, spanning 5,984 orbits.Dyson spent her 4th spaceflight aboard the station as an Expedition 70 as well as 71 tour developer, and departs along with Kononenko, accomplishing his fifth tour in to room as well as accruing an everlasting file 1,111 days in orbit, and Chub, who accomplished his initial spaceflight.After coming back to Planet, the 3 crew members are going to soar on a chopper coming from the touchdown internet site to the healing staging area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will panel a NASA aircraft and also return to Houston, while Kononenko and also Chub will depart for an instruction bottom in Celebrity Urban area, Russia.NASA's coverage is actually as complies with (perpetuity Eastern as well as subject to change based on real-time operations):.Sunday, Sept. 22.10:15 a.m.-- Exploration 71/72 change of demand service starts on NASA+ as well as the organization's internet site.Monday, Sept. 23.12:45 a.m.-- Hatch shutting insurance coverage starts on NASA+ and also the organization's website.1:05 a.m.-- Hatch closing.4 a.m.-- Undocking protection begins on NASA+ and also the agency's internet site.4:37 a.m.-- Undocking.6:45 a.m.-- Insurance coverage begins for deorbit burn, entry, and touchdown on NASA+ as well as the company's site.7:05 a.m.-- Deorbit melt.8 a.m.-- Landing.For much more than 20 years, people have actually stayed and also functioned regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating accurate knowledge, as well as making research discoveries that are actually not possible in the world. The place is a crucial testbed for NASA to understand and conquer the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight and also to grow office opportunities in low The planet orbit. As industrial firms pay attention to supplying individual room transit solutions and also places as part of a robust reduced The planet track economy, NASA is actually centering even more resources on profound room objectives to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future individual purposes to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station research and operations 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 Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.