You can watch 3 Russian cosmonauts return to Earth from International Space Station today
Expedition 67 cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov are returning home.
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Update for 10 am EDT:The Russian Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov landed safely at 6:57 a.m. EDT (1057 GMT).Read our full wrap and see more photos and videos.
Three Russian cosmonauts will return to Earth Thursday (Sept. 29), and you can watch the whole thing live.
Expedition 67 cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov will fly back toEarth on a RussianSoyuz spacecraft from theInternational Space Station(ISS).
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Their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the Prichal module of the ISS at 3:34 a.m. EDT (0734 GMT) and arrive in Kazakhstan, outside of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 6:57 a.m. EDT (1057 GMT or 4:57 a.m. local time),NASA officials said.
Live streaming of the undocking and re-entry will be available here at Space.com, viaNASA Television, as well as on the agency's website, app, and social media. Undocking coverage will start at 3:15 a.m. EDT (0715 GMT) and landing coverage at 5:45 a.m. EDT (0945 GMT).
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The trio's launch to the ISS on March 18 took place less than a month after theRussian invasion of Ukraine began, and their Soyuz held the firstall-Russian cosmonaut crew in 22 years.
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Expedition 67 featurednumerous spacewalks to prepare and integrate the European Robotic Arm on the Russian side of the space station, adding on to robotic capabilities used by Canada's Canadarm2 and Japan's Kibo module arm. (One Aug. 17 spacewalkwas cut short due to problems with Artemyev's suit, which were resolved before the next excursion.)
During a change of command ceremony on Wednesday (Sept. 28), outgoing Expedition 67 commander Artemyev seemed toallude to the ongoing war. "In the end, our war will end everywhere," he said.
Expedition 68 commander Samantha Cristoforetti is the first European woman to helm the ISS and the fifth European to do so overall. After Artemyev, Matveev and Korsakov depart, she'll share the ISS with NASA astronauts Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins and Kjell Lindgren and Frank Rubio, along with cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.
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The next crewed launch to the ISS is expected to happen no sooner than Oct. 5. Crew-5, a mission that will take place aboard aSpaceXCrew Dragon spacecraft, is slated to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Themultinational Crew-5 will include a seat for Anna Kikina, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS on a commercial American spacecraft, along with NASA's Nicole Mann (who will become thefirst Native American woman in space), NASA's Josh Cassada and Japan's Koichi Wakata.
Crew-5's launch has been delayed at least two days due to the potential"catastrophic" arrival of Hurricane Ian in Florida, as some officials have termed the storm.NASA has emphasized that the new launch date is tentative and depends on the center's recovery after the hurricane, which has brought Category 4 winds to the state.
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Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., was a staff writer in the spaceflight channel between 2022 and 2024 specializing in Canadian space news. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years from 2012 to 2024. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House, leading world coverage about a lost-and-found space tomato on the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, flying parabolic, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. Her latest book, "Why Am I Taller?" (ECW Press, 2022) is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams.






















