NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are concluding their 241-day mission aboard the International Space Station.

The crew and their Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft will undock from the orbital laboratory’s Rassvet module at 3:02 a.m. EDT on Sunday, July 26, and head for a parachute-assisted landing at 6:26 a.m. (3:26 p.m. local time) in the Kazakh steppe, southeast of Dzhezkazgan.

Coverage of NASA’s live return will be broadcast across a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online:

NASA Live

Williams and his crewmates will complete 3,856 orbits and travel more than 102 million miles before returning to Earth. The flight marks the first mission for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov.

After landing, the crew will fly by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where the recovery teams are based. Williams will then return to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, while Kud-Sverchkov and Mikaev will return to their training base in Star City, Russia.

NASA’s live return coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):

Saturday July 25

9:40 am – Coverage of the change of command ceremony for Space Station Expedition 74/75 begins.

Kud-Sverchkov will transfer command of the orbital complex to NASA astronaut Jessica Meir. Expedition 75 officially begins when Soyuz MS-28 undocks.

23:10 – Coverage of crew farewells and hatch closing begins.

23:30 – Hatch closing

Sunday July 26

2:30 am – Undocking coverage begins.

3:02 am – Undocking

5:15 am – Deorbitation and landing coverage begins.

5:32 am – Deorbitation burn

6:26 am – Landing

For more than 25 years, people have continuously lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and achieving research breakthroughs that were not possible on Earth. The space station helps NASA understand and overcome the challenges of human spaceflight, expand commercial opportunities in low-Earth orbit, and lay the foundation for long-duration missions to the Moon, as part of the Artemis program, and to Mars.

For more information about the International Space Station’s research, operations and crews, visit:

www.nasa.gov/station

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