Space

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

.NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, alonged with Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and also Oleg Kononenko, will certainly deviate the International Spaceport Station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 space capsule, as well as come back to Planet.Dyson, Chub, and Kononenko is going to undock from the orbiting laboratory's Prichal module 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 town of Dzhezkazgan.NASA's live coverage of return as well as similar activities are going to flow on NASA+ and also the company's website. Know how to stream NASA web content through an assortment of platforms, featuring social networking sites.A change of order ceremony likewise will definitely stream on NASA systems at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. Kononenko is going to surrender station demand to NASA rocketeer Suni Williams for Trip 72, which starts at the moment of undocking.Stretching over 184 times precede, Dyson's objective features dealing with 2,944 tracks of the Planet and also a trip of 78 million kilometers. The Soyuz MS-25 space capsule launched March 23, as well as arrived at the terminal March 25, along with Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, as well as spaceflight individual Port Vasilevskaya of Belarus. Novitskiy as well as Vasilevskaya were actually aboard the terminal for 12 days prior to coming back home with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on April 6.Kononenko and Chub, that launched with O'Hara to the station on the Soyuz MS-24 space capsule final September, will definitely come back after 374 times in space and also a trip of 158.6 thousand miles, covering 5,984 orbits.Dyson invested her 4th spaceflight aboard the terminal as an Exploration 70 as well as 71 trip engineer, and also leaves along with Kononenko, finishing his 5th air travel in to area and accruing an everlasting record 1,111 days in track, as well as Chub, that accomplished his 1st spaceflight.After coming back to Earth, the 3 team members will fly on a helicopter coming from the touchdown site to the rehabilitation hosting urban area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Dyson will panel a NASA airplane and return to Houston, while Kononenko and Chub are going to leave for an instruction foundation in Star Area, Russia.NASA's protection is actually as adheres to (all times Eastern and also subject to change based upon real-time procedures):.Sunday, Sept. 22.10:15 a.m.-- Exploration 71/72 change of demand ceremony begins on NASA+ and the agency's site.Monday, Sept. 23.12:45 a.m.-- Hatch shutting insurance coverage begins on NASA+ and the firm's site.1:05 a.m.-- Hatch closing.4 a.m.-- Undocking insurance coverage begins on NASA+ and the organization's site.4:37 a.m.-- Undocking.6:45 a.m.-- Protection starts for deorbit burn, admittance, and landing on NASA+ and also the firm's site.7:05 a.m.-- Deorbit burn.8 a.m.-- Landing.For more than twenty years, people have actually stayed and also functioned constantly aboard the International Spaceport station, accelerating technology, and also making investigation developments that are certainly not achievable on Earth. The place is actually an essential testbed for NASA to recognize and also beat the difficulties of long-duration spaceflight and to grow business opportunities in reduced Planet track. As commercial companies focus on supplying human area transportation companies and also places as part of a durable low Planet track economic situation, NASA is actually centering a lot more resources on serious room missions to the Moon as component of Artemis in preparation for potential human missions to Mars.Find out more regarding International Spaceport station analysis 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 Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.