RETURN OF SOYUZ MS-25, Sept 23, 2024, Kazakhstan, 7:59 am ET

Update, September 23: The landing time has been refined to 7:59 am ET instead of 8:00 am ET.

Original Entry: Soyuz MS-25 will return from the International Space Station on September 23, 2024, landing on the steppes of Kazakshtan at 8:00 am ET.

Aboard the spacecraft will be Roscosmos cosmonauts Olen Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson.

Kononenko and Chub launched in September 2023 on Soyuz MS-24 and have spent one year in orbit.  Dyson launched on Soyuz MS-25 and is returning after six months.

NASA coverage of the return is as follows:

• 12:45 am ET, farewells and hatch closing at the ISS
• 4:37 am ET, undocking (NASA coverage begins 4:00 am ET)
• 8:00 am ET, landing (NASA coverage of deorbit burn at 7:05 am ET and landing 8:00 am ET begins at 6:45 am ET)