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Astronaut, Cosmonauts Board Soyuz; Close Hatch for Departure [1]

['Mark A. Garcia']

Date: 2025-04-19  

Astronaut, Cosmonauts Board Soyuz; Close Hatch for Departure

(From left) Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Don Pettit of NASA, and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos wave farewell before boarding their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft for the ride back to Earth. NASA+

At 2:52 p.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and return to Earth.

NASA will provide live undocking coverage at 5:30 p.m. on NASA+. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

NASA astronaut Don Petitt, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, will undock from the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module at 5:57 p.m., heading for a parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. (6:20 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sunday, April 20) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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