Three astronauts are saying goodbye to the International Space Station on October 3 and you can watch their departure on NASA Live.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 60 flight engineer Nick Hague, Expedition 60 and Soyuz commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, and spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates, are scheduled to end their stay at the orbiting laboratory on Thursday. NASA will cover their return at 11:45 p.m. EDT tonight on its website and NASA Television.
Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin handed over station command during a ceremony today to @Astro_Luca. Watch Ovchinin return to Earth on Thursday with @AstroHague and @Astro_Hazzaa live on @NASA TV. #AskNASA | https://t.co/yuOTrYN8CV
Undock: 3:36am ET Thursday
Landing: 7am ET pic.twitter.com/dN4YJcZZ4R— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) October 2, 2019
The trio will close the hatch to their Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft and undock from the space station early tomorrow morning. About three hours later, a parachute-assisted landing is planned southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Once the crew lands, they will return by helicopter to the recovery staging area in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. From there, Hague will board a NASA plane to return to Houston, while Almansoori and Ovchinin will go back to their training base in Star City, Russia.
Two Exp 60 crewmates and a visiting astronaut return to Earth on Thursday. The Exp 61 residents staying on station will focus on a series of spacewalks set to begin Sunday. Read more… https://t.co/OFWejYbwo6 pic.twitter.com/3uhicVaOPn
— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) October 2, 2019
Hague and Ovchinin are wrapping up a 203-day mission at the orbiting laboratory. Hague is completing his second flight in space, while Ovchinin is finishing his third space journey. Almansoori is ending an eight-day stay on the space station that covered 3.1 million miles and 128 orbits of Earth.
Tomorrow night, three space travelers return home to Earth from @Space_Station. @AstroHague 🇺🇸, Alexey Ovchinin 🇷🇺 and @Astro_Hazzaa 🇦🇪 will close the hatch to their Soyuz, undock and land about 3 hours later.
How to watch Oct. 2, starting at 11:45pm ET: https://t.co/5MqMJ9GFh1 pic.twitter.com/qVP8BzSA91
— NASA (@NASA) October 2, 2019
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