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Robert Pearlman
MS-23 crew relocates Soyuz to station docking port
Soyuz MS-23 crewmates Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos and Frank Rubio of NASA successfully re-docked their spacecraft to the Prichal module on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station on Thursday (April 6) at 5:22 a.m. EDT (0922 GMT).
This was the 26th spacecraft relocation in space station history. The move makes room for the arrival of the uncrewed Progress MS-23 (84P) cargo spacecraft later this year and frees the Poisk airlock for upcoming Roscosmos spacewalks in April and May.
Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin are scheduled to return to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on Sept. 27.
Robert Pearlman
Soyuz MS-23 undocks from space station
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin together with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio departed the International Space Station to return to Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 27). Their Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft undocked from the Earth-facing port of the Prichal node at 3:54 a.m. EDT (0754 GMT).
A deorbit burn scheduled for 6:24 a.m EDT (1024 GMT) will set up a landing southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 7:17 a.m. EDT (1117 GMT or 5:14 p.m. local time).
The first American to spend a full year in space and the first two Russians to do the same on the International Space Station have landed safely back on Earth.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos returned from the space station aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on Wednesday (Sept. 27). Their touchdown at 7:17 a.m. EDT (1117 GMT or 5:14 p.m. local time) on the steppe of Kazakhstan ended an extended 371-day stay in space for all three.
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