Space

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

.NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, alonged with Roscosmos astronauts Nikolai Chub as well as Oleg Kononenko, will certainly deviate the International Spaceport Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 space capsule, and also go back to Earth.Dyson, Chub, and also Kononenko will certainly undock coming from the orbiting laboratory's Prichal module at 4:37 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, going to a parachute-assisted landing at 8 a.m. (5 p.m. Kazakhstan time) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the community of Dzhezkazgan.NASA's live protection of profit as well as related tasks will stream on NASA+ and the agency's website. Learn how to stream NASA web content by means of a range of platforms, including social media.A modification of command ceremony additionally will certainly stream on NASA systems at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Kononenko will hand over station demand to NASA astronaut Suni Williams for Trip 72, which begins back then of undocking.Extending 184 days in space, Dyson's mission includes covering 2,944 orbits of the Earth and a journey of 78 thousand miles. The Soyuz MS-25 space probe released March 23, and also came to the station March 25, with Dyson, Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Novitskiy, and also spaceflight attendee Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy as well as Vasilevskaya were actually aboard the terminal for 12 days just before coming back home with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on April 6.Kononenko and also Chub, that released with O'Hara to the station on the Soyuz MS-24 space capsule final September, will definitely come back after 374 times precede as well as an excursion of 158.6 million miles, extending 5,984 orbits.Dyson spent her fourth spaceflight aboard the station as an Expedition 70 and also 71 air travel developer, as well as departs with Kononenko, completing his fifth tour into space as well as building up an all-time report 1,111 days in track, as well as Chub, who finished his initial spaceflight.After returning to The planet, the 3 team members are going to fly on a chopper from the landing website to the recuperation setting up metropolitan area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will panel a NASA plane as well as come back to Houston, while Kononenko as well as Chub are going to depart for a training foundation in Celebrity Urban area, Russia.NASA's coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and conditional based upon real-time operations):.Sunday, Sept. 22.10:15 a.m.-- Expedition 71/72 modification of order service starts on NASA+ and the organization's site.Monday, Sept. 23.12:45 a.m.-- Hatch closing protection starts on NASA+ as well as the organization's internet site.1:05 a.m.-- Hatch closing.4 a.m.-- Undocking protection begins on NASA+ and the firm's internet site.4:37 a.m.-- Undocking.6:45 a.m.-- Insurance coverage begins for deorbit burn, access, and landing on NASA+ as well as the company's web site.7:05 a.m.-- Deorbit melt.8 a.m.-- Landing.For much more than two decades, individuals have actually lived as well as worked regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating accurate knowledge, as well as making investigation discoveries that are certainly not possible in the world. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to understand as well as eliminate the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to expand commercial opportunities in reduced Earth track. As business business focus on delivering individual area transportation companies and also places as portion of a robust low Earth orbit economy, NASA is concentrating more sources on serious area objectives to the Moon as aspect of Artemis to prepare for potential human goals to Mars.Discover more regarding International Space Station study and also 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 Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.