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NASA Establishes Protection for Astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Crewmates Return

.NASA rocketeer Tracy C. Dyson, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will depart from the International Spaceport Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, and also return to The planet.Dyson, Chub, and Kononenko will definitely undock coming from the orbiting lab's Prichal element 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 town of Dzhezkazgan.NASA's live insurance coverage of return and related activities will stream on NASA+ and also the company's internet site. Discover just how to flow NASA web content by means of a wide array of platforms, including social media.A modification of command service additionally will flow on NASA systems at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Kononenko is going to surrender station demand to NASA rocketeer Suni Williams for Exploration 72, which starts at that time of undocking.Reaching 184 times precede, Dyson's purpose consists of dealing with 2,944 tracks of the Earth and a journey of 78 million miles. The Soyuz MS-25 space probe launched March 23, and came to the terminal March 25, along with Dyson, Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Novitskiy, as well as spaceflight attendee Harbor Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy and also Vasilevskaya were actually aboard the station for 12 days before returning home with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on April 6.Kononenko and also Chub, that introduced with O'Hara to the terminal on the Soyuz MS-24 space probe final September, are going to return after 374 days precede as well as a journey of 158.6 thousand kilometers, covering 5,984 tracks.Dyson invested her 4th spaceflight aboard the station as a Trip 70 and also 71 trip engineer, and also leaves along with Kononenko, accomplishing his fifth tour into room and also building up an all-time record 1,111 days in orbit, and Chub, who accomplished his initial spaceflight.After returning to Earth, the 3 crew members are going to soar on a chopper from the landing site to the recuperation holding area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will board a NASA airplane and also return to Houston, while Kononenko and also Chub will depart for an instruction foundation in Star City, Russia.NASA's coverage is as adheres to (all times Eastern and also subject to change based on real-time operations):.Sunday, Sept. 22.10:15 a.m.-- Exploration 71/72 improvement of command event begins on NASA+ as well as the firm's site.Monday, Sept. 23.12:45 a.m.-- Hatch closing protection starts on NASA+ and the company's website.1:05 a.m.-- Hatch closing.4 a.m.-- Undocking insurance coverage starts on NASA+ as well as the agency's internet site.4:37 a.m.-- Undocking.6:45 a.m.-- Insurance coverage begins for deorbit burn, admittance, and landing on NASA+ as well as the organization's site.7:05 a.m.-- Deorbit shed.8 a.m.-- Touchdown.For much more than two decades, individuals have resided and also operated regularly aboard the International Spaceport station, progressing scientific knowledge, and also creating study discoveries that are actually certainly not feasible in the world. The station is actually a vital testbed for NASA to comprehend as well as conquer the problems of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business possibilities in low The planet track. As industrial business focus on delivering individual area transportation companies as well as locations as aspect of a durable low Planet track economy, NASA is focusing more sources on serious room missions to the Moon as component of Artemis to prepare for future human missions to Mars.Discover more concerning International Spaceport station investigation and functions at:.https://www.nasa.gov/station.- side-.Josh Finch/ Claire O'SheaHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ claire.a.o'shea@nasa.gov.Sandra JonesJohnson Room Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.