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Live on NASA+: Soyuz Crew Undocking from Station Soon

The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft is pictured docked to the Prichal module just hours before undocking from the International Space Station and returning three crew members to Earth.
The Soyuz MS-27 crew spacecraft is pictured docked to the Prichal module just hours before undocking from the International Space Station and returning three crew members to Earth.
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NASA’s live coverage of undocking is now underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

At 5:30 p.m. EST, hatches closed between the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and the return to Earth of NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky.

The spacecraft will undock from the orbiting laboratory’s Prichal module at approximately 8:41 p.m. It 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.

Watch NASA’s live coverage of the deorbit burn, entry, and landing, beginning at 10:30 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.

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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