Hatches Closed, Crew Inside Soyuz Ready to Depart
At 5:30 p.m. EST, the hatch closed between the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to Earth.
Watch NASA's live undocking coverage beginning at 8:15 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, will undock from the station's Prichal module at approximately 8:41 p.m., headed for a parachute-assisted landing at 12:03 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9 (10:03 a.m. local time in Kazakhstan), on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan.
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Mark A. Garcia
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