Visiting Trio Says Farewell to Station Crew Before Departing

At center, Soyuz Commander Alexander Misurkin and spaceflight participants Yozo Hirano (left) and Yusaku Maezawa (right) pose for crew portrait.
At center, Soyuz Commander Alexander Misurkin and spaceflight participants Yozo Hirano (left) and Yusaku Maezawa (right) pose for crew portrait.

NASA is providing live coverage on NASA TV, the agency’s website, and the NASA app as Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin along with spaceflight participants and Japanese private citizens Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano prepare to return to Earth from the International Space Station.

The trio, concluding an 11-day mission aboard the station, will bid farewell to the Expedition 66 crew and will close the hatch to their Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft around 3:32 p.m. to begin the journey back to Earth. They will undock from the station’s Poisk module at 6:50 p.m., heading for a parachute-assisted landing at 10:18 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 19 (9:18 a.m. Monday, Dec. 20, Kazakhstan time). on the steppe of Kazakhstan.

Coverage of the farewells will be followed by undocking coverage at 6:30 p.m. with coverage of the Soyuz deorbit burn and landing beginning at 9 p.m.

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