ISS crew to return to Earth on June 3, next expedition scheduled for June 6 - source

MOSCOW. April 23 (Interfax) - The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 54-55/Soyuz MS-07 will return to Earth on the afternoon of June 3, a source in the Russian aerospace industry told Interfax.

"The crew of the Soyuz MS-07 manned spacecraft will leave the ISS at 12:16 p.m. on June 3. The journey to Earth will take the landing capsule slightly more than three hours. The crew will be on Earth at 3:38 p.m. Moscow time," the source said.

The crew comprises Roscosmos Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, NASA Astronaut Scott Tingle, and JAXA Astronaut Norishige Kanai.

The next crew is set to travel to the ISS at 2:11 p.m. Moscow time on June 6.

"The Soyuz MS-09 manned spacecraft will use a conventional two-orbit rendezvous profile to dock with the ISS at 4:05 p.m. Moscow time. Entering the ISS will be Cosmonaut Sergei Prokopiev, German Astronaut Alexander Gerst, and American Astronaut of Cuban descent Serena Aunon-Chancellor," the source said.