A change of command is underway aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as three crew members are preparing to depart the orbiting laboratory in the early hours of September 27 after spending 371 days in space. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is set to return home on Wednesday, September 27 follo
following a record-breaking mission on orbit. The hatch will close on the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft at 12:20 a.m.cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin aboard. Following hatch closure, the spacecraft will undock from the Prichal module at 3:55 a.m., beginning the trio’s short ride back to Earth and starting Expedition 70 for those still aboard the station. Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin will take a two-hour ride aboard Soyuz MS-23 before deorbit burn at 6:24 a.m. and landing around 7:17 a.m.
The Canadarm2 robotic arm is pictured extending away from the International Space Station after jettisoning flight support equipment toward the Earth’s atmosphere. The flight hardware secured a pair of roll-out solar arrays inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship’s trunk during its ascent to orbit and rendezvous with the space station in November 2022.
Rubio, now the record-holder for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, launched to the station on September 21, 2022. His year-long mission was comprised of dozens of
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