Soyuz Crewmates Prep for Undocking; Expedition 72 Ends Soon
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At 2:52 p.m. EDT, hatches between the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and the International Space Station closed in preparation for undocking and return to Earth of NASA astronaut Don Petitt and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.
The spacecraft will undock from the orbiting laboratory's Rassvet module at 5:57 p.m., heading for a parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. (6:20 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sunday, April 20) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.
NASA will provide coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and landing at 8 p.m. on NASA+.
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Mark A. Garcia
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