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NASA’s SpaceX CRS-32: Launch Coverage Underway

NASA’s coverage is underway on NASA+ for the launch of SpaceX’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms. 

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff at 4:15 a.m. EDT on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  Filled with about 6,700 pounds of scientific investigations, food, supplies, and equipment, Dragon will arrive at the orbiting outpost at 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, April 22, and dock autonomously to the zenith, space-facing port of the space station’s Harmony module. 

NASA will provide live coverage of the spacecraft’s arrival beginning at 6:45 a.m. April 22 on NASA+. 

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts. 

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Stephanie Plucinsky

Astronaut Returns to Earth on 70th Birthday with Soyuz Crew

At 9:20 p.m. EDT (6:20 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sunday, April 20), the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft made a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.

Spanning 220 days in space, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and his crewmates, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a journey of 93.3 million miles over the course of their mission. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft launched and docked to the station on Sept. 11, 2024.

This was Pettit’s fourth spaceflight, where he served as flight engineer for Expedition 71 and 72. He has a career total of 590 days in orbit. Ovchinin completed his fourth flight in space, totaling 595 days, and Vagner has earned an overall total of 416 days in space during two trips to the orbiting laboratory.

The three crew members will fly on a helicopter from the landing site to the recovery staging city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Pettit will board a NASA plane and return to Houston, while Ovchinin and Vagner will depart for a training base in Star City, Russia.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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Mark A. Garcia

Soyuz Fires Braking Engines; Crew Entering Atmosphere Soon

NASA’s live return coverage is underway on NASA+. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, will make a parachute-assisted landing about 9:20 p.m. (6:20 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sunday, April 20) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. The spacecraft will execute its deorbit burn at 8:26 p.m.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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Mark A. Garcia

Expedition 72 Trio Undocks for Earth Return Aboard Soyuz

At 5:57 p.m. EDT, the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft undocked from the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module with NASA astronaut Don Petitt and Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.

NASA’s live coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and landing will begin at 8 p.m. on NASA+. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

The spacecraft will make a parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. (6:20 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sunday, April 20) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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Mark A. Garcia

Soyuz Crewmates Prep for Undocking; Expedition 72 Ends Soon

NASA’s live coverage of undocking is now underway on NASA+. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

At 2:52 p.m. EDT, hatches between the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft and the International Space Station closed in preparation for undocking and return to Earth of NASA astronaut Don Petitt and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.

The spacecraft will undock from the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module at 5:57 p.m., heading for a parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. (6:20 a.m. Kazakhstan time, Sunday, April 20) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan.

NASA will provide coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and landing at 8 p.m. on NASA+.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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Mark A. Garcia