Chris Williams Returns on Soyuz After 241-Day ISS Mission, Completing 3,856 Orbits
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Updated · NASA · Jul 23
Chris Williams Returns on Soyuz After 241-Day ISS Mission, Completing 3,856 Orbits
3 articles · Updated · NASA · Jul 23
Summary
Soyuz MS-28 is set to undock from the ISS at 3:03 a.m. EDT Sunday and land in Kazakhstan at 6:25 a.m., bringing NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Roscosmos crewmates home after 241 days.
The trio will finish 3,856 orbits and more than 102 million miles before touchdown southeast of Dzhezkazgan, with a deorbit burn scheduled for 5:31 a.m. EDT.
Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will hand ISS command to NASA astronaut Jessica Meir before departure, and Expedition 75 officially begins once Soyuz MS-28 leaves the station.
After landing, recovery teams will take the crew by helicopter to Karaganda; Williams then heads to NASA's Johnson Space Center, while Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev return to Star City in Russia.
The flight is the first space mission for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud-Sverchkov, extending the ISS's more than 25 years of continuous human occupation.