SOYUZ MS-26 UNDOCKING AND LANDING, Apr 19, 2025, Earth Orbit/Kazakhstan, 5:57 pm ET/9:20 pm ET

Soyuz MS-26 will undock from the International Space Station and land near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on April 19, 2025 ET (April 20 local time at the landing site).

The crew includes:

• Aleksey Ovchinin (Roscosmos)
• Ivan Vagner (Roscosmos)
• Don Pettit (NASA)

The schedule on April 19 is as follows:

• Hatch closing, 2:25 pm ET (NASA+ begins 2:00 pm ET)
• Undocking, 5:57 pm ET (NASA+ begins 5:30 pm ET)
• Deorbit burn and landing (NASA+ begins 8:00 pm ET)
  • Deorbit burn, 8:26 pm ET
  • Land, 9:20 pm ET

Undocking and landing will be April 20 local time in Kazakhstan, which coincidentally is Don Pettit’s 70th birthday. He’s the oldest active NASA astronaut.