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<\/a>NASA Television coverage of Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov\u2019s hand over of the space station to NASA astronaut\u00a0Tom Marshburn\u00a0<\/a>will begin at 9:45 a.m. EDT during a change of command ceremony. The event will air live on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n Mark Vande Hei<\/a>, along with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, will close the hatch to the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft to begin the journey back to Earth. The Soyuz will undock from the Rassvet module, heading for a parachute-assisted landing Wednesday, March 30, on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan.<\/p>\n Coverage of the crew\u2019s farewells, undocking, and landing will air live on NASA TV, the agency\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>, and the\u00a0NASA app<\/a>\u00a0at the following times (all EDT):<\/p>\n Vande Hei and Dubrov launched April 9, 2021, on Soyuz MS-18, and will wrap up a 355-day mission spanning 5,680 orbits of Earth and more than 150 million miles. During the long-duration mission, Vande Hei broke the record for longest single spaceflight by an American astronaut, previously held at 340 days. Vande Hei will wrap up his second spaceflight with a total of 523 days in space. Shkaplerov launched on Soyuz MS-19 on Oct. 5, 2021. This was Dubrov\u2019s first flight. Shkaplerov is ending his fourth mission with 708 cumulative days spent in space.<\/p>\n At the time of undocking, Expedition 67 will formally begin aboard the station, with new station Commander Tom Marshburn, NASA astronauts\u00a0Raja Chari<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kayla Barron<\/a>, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut\u00a0Matthias Maurer<\/a>, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov.<\/p>\n After landing, the Soyuz MS-19 crew will split up, as per standard crew return practice, with Vande Hei returning to his home in Houston, while the cosmonauts fly back to their training base in Star City, Russia.<\/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 weekly video highlights at:\u00a0http:\/\/jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov\/videoupdate\/<\/a><\/p>\n Get the latest from NASA delivered every week. Subscribe here:\u00a0www.nasa.gov\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA Television coverage of Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov\u2019s hand over of the space station to NASA astronaut\u00a0Tom Marshburn\u00a0will begin at 9:45 a.m. EDT during a change of command ceremony. The event will air live on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency\u2019s website. Mark Vande Hei, along with Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr \u2026 Continue reading \n
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