(AGENPARL) – ven 22 settembre 2023 September 22, 2023 
MEDIA ADVISORY M23-121
*Record-Setting NASA Astronaut Soon Returns to Earth; Watch Live*
NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio poses for a
portrait while working inside the International Space Station’s Destiny
laboratory module.
*/Credits: NASA/*
Now the record-holder for the longest single spaceflight by an American, NASA
astronaut Frank Rubio is scheduled to depart the International Space Station
and return to Earth Wednesday, Sept. 27. The agency will provide full
coverage from hatch closing through landing.
Coverage will begin at 12 a.m. EDT and will stream live on NASA Television,
the NASA app [1], and the agency’s website. Watch online at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live [2]
Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will
undock their Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft from the station’s Prichal module at
3:55 a.m. EDT. The trio will return after 371 days in space and a mission
spanning 157.4 million miles and 5,963 orbits of the Earth. After undocking,
the crew will head for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of
the town of Dzhezkazgan, at 7:17 a.m. (5:14 p.m. Kazakhstan time).
After landing, Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin will be flown from the landing
site to Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Rubio will then board a NASA plane back to
Houston.
Rubio, who launched Sept. 21, 2022, became the new record holder for the
longest single United States spaceflight on Sept. 11, after he surpassed the
former record of 355 days held by NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.
The crewmates were originally scheduled to return to Earth in March, but the
Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft they launched on experienced a coolant leak that
resulted in an extension of their mission.
Mission coverage is as follows (all times Eastern):
*12 a.m.* – Farewells and hatch closing coverage begins (hatch closing
scheduled at 12:20 a.m.)
*3:30 a.m*. – Undocking coverage begins (undocking scheduled at 3:55 a.m.)
*6 a.m*. – Deorbit burn and landing coverage begins (deorbit burn scheduled
at 6:24 a.m.; landing scheduled at 7:17 a.m.)
Keep up with the International Space Station, its research, and crew at:
*https://www.nasa.gov/station* [3]
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[1] https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html
[2] https://www.nasa.gov/live
[3] https://www.nasa.gov/station