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Watch a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts return to Earth after 1 year in space on Sept. 27
By Mike Wall published about 9 hours ago
Frank Rubio and his two Russian crewmates are scheduled to depart the ISS at 3:54 a.m. ET on Wednesday (Sept. 27).
An extra-long space mission for three men in orbit is about to come to an end.
American astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA and his two Russian crewmates are scheduled to return to Earth early Wednesday (Sept. 27) after spending more than a year in space, and you can watch the action live online.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Rubio and the two cosmonauts — Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos — is scheduled to depart the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday at 3:54 a.m. EDT (0754 GMT). If all goes according to plan, the trio will touch down on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 7:17 a.m. EDT (1117 GMT).
You can watch all these events live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA. Coverage will begin at 12 a.m. EDT (0400 GMT), just ahead of when hatches between the Soyuz and the ISS get closed. That closure is scheduled to occur at 12:20 a.m. EDT (0420 GMT).
More:
https://www.space.com/one-year-astronaut-cosmonauts-soyuz-landing-september-2023-livestream