NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are wrapping up a two hundred forty-one day mission on the International Space Station and heading home this coming Sunday. According to NASA, the crew will undock early Sunday morning, complete over three thousand orbits, and land on the Kazakhstan steppe by parachute at six twenty-six a.m. Eastern time. This is Williams and Sergei Mikaev's first spaceflight; Sergey Kud-Sverchkov has been to the station before. NASA is providing live coverage of the entire return sequence throughout Sunday.

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