Space

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

.NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will depart from the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 space capsule, and also return to Planet.Dyson, Chub, and also Kononenko will certainly undock from the orbiting lab's Prichal element at 4:37 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, going to a parachute-assisted touchdown at 8 a.m. (5 p.m. Kazakhstan time) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan.NASA's real-time insurance coverage of return and also similar tasks will certainly flow on NASA+ as well as the firm's web site. Learn exactly how to flow NASA content by means of an assortment of platforms, featuring social media.A change of order ceremony additionally will definitely stream on NASA platforms at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Kononenko will certainly hand over terminal order to NASA rocketeer Suni Williams for Trip 72, which starts at the time of undocking.Covering 184 times in space, Dyson's mission consists of covering 2,944 orbits of the Earth and a trip of 78 million miles. The Soyuz MS-25 space capsule released March 23, as well as got to the station March 25, along with Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, as well as spaceflight attendee Port Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy and also Vasilevskaya were actually aboard the terminal for 12 times just before coming back home along with NASA rocketeer Loral O'Hara on April 6.Kononenko as well as Chub, that introduced with O'Hara to the terminal on the Soyuz MS-24 space probe last September, are going to return after 374 times precede and also an excursion of 158.6 thousand miles, reaching 5,984 tracks.Dyson spent her fourth spaceflight aboard the terminal as a Trip 70 and 71 trip developer, and also departs along with Kononenko, completing his fifth flight right into space as well as building up an enduring file 1,111 days in track, and also Chub, who completed his first spaceflight.After returning to Earth, the 3 workers participants will fly on a chopper coming from the landing web site to the recuperation holding metropolitan area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will panel a NASA plane and come back to Houston, while Kononenko and also Chub will certainly leave for an instruction base in Superstar Area, Russia.NASA's insurance coverage is as follows (perpetuity Eastern and conditional based on real-time procedures):.Sunday, Sept. 22.10:15 a.m.-- Trip 71/72 improvement of demand event begins on NASA+ and the firm's site.Monday, Sept. 23.12:45 a.m.-- Hatch shutting insurance coverage starts on NASA+ as well as the organization's site.1:05 a.m.-- Hatch closing.4 a.m.-- Undocking coverage begins on NASA+ as well as the company's site.4:37 a.m.-- Undocking.6:45 a.m.-- Coverage starts for deorbit burn, entry, and touchdown on NASA+ and also the organization's website.7:05 a.m.-- Deorbit melt.8 a.m.-- Landing.For more than 20 years, folks have lived and also operated continually aboard the International Space Station, progressing scientific knowledge, and bring in study innovations that are not feasible on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to comprehend and get over the obstacles of long-duration spaceflight as well as to increase business possibilities in low The planet track. As office firms pay attention to giving individual area transportation services as well as places as aspect of a sturdy reduced Planet orbit economy, NASA is actually concentrating much more information on profound space purposes to the Moon as portion of Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.Learn more concerning International Space Station investigation and operations 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 Area Center, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.