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<\/a>NASA is providing live coverage on NASA TV and its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0of the undocking and departure from the\u00a0International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0of the Soyuz spacecraft that will return NASA astronaut\u00a0Kate Rubins<\/a> and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos to Earth.<\/p>\n The three crew members are concluding a 185-day mission spanning 2,960 orbits of Earth and 78.4 million miles. Rubins is completing her second flight, with 300 cumulative days in space. Ryzhikov is completing his second spaceflight, with 358 cumulative days. This was Kud-Sverchkov\u2019s first spaceflight.<\/p>\n During their mission, Rubins and her crewmates welcomed NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-1<\/a> astronauts aboard the first long-duration commercial crew spaceflight. Rubins completed two spacewalks alongside NASA astronaut Victor Glover<\/a> and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi<\/a>, bringing her career total to four spacewalks. She returns to Earth with a total of 300 days across her two flights, the fourth most days in space by a U.S. female astronaut.<\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following the\u00a0space station blog<\/a>,\u00a0@space_station<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter as well as the\u00a0ISS Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ISS Instagram<\/a>\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA is providing live coverage on NASA TV and its\u00a0website\u00a0of the undocking and departure from the\u00a0International Space Station\u00a0of the Soyuz spacecraft that will return NASA astronaut\u00a0Kate Rubins and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos to Earth. The three crew members are concluding a 185-day mission spanning 2,960 orbits of \u2026 Continue reading