MOSCOW. Sept 23 (Interfax) - The Soyuz MS-25 spaceship with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson onboard has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) for landing.
Roscosmos is streaming the undocking process. Soyuz MS-25 undocked from the Prichal module of the ISS Russian segment and started moving away at 11:36 a.m.
Once it reaches a safe distance from the ISS, the spaceship will start its engines at around 2:06 p.m. to apply brakes and begin the descent from orbit. Then the spaceship will split into a landing module to continue the controllable descent with the crew and cargo onboard and the remaining part that will burn up in dense layers of the atmosphere.
According to Roscosmos, the capsule will land 147 kilometers southeast of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 3 p.m.
Kononenko and Chub arrived at the ISS by Soyuz MS-24 on September 15, 2023, while Dyson came to the station by Soyuz MS-25 on March 25, 2024.
Expedition 72 comprising Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Alexander Grebyonkin, and NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, Barry Wilmore, and Sunita Williams will continue to operate the ISS.