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Soyuz Undocks from Station, Crew Heads for Earth Return

The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft undocks from the Prichal module to return three Expedition 73 crew members to Earth.
The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft undocks from the Prichal module to return three Expedition 73 crew members to Earth.
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At 8:41 p.m. EST, the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station’s Prichal module with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard.  

NASA’s live coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and landing will begin at 10:30 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. 

The spacecraft will make 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. 

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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