and good morning from Mission Control in
Houston in the International Space
Station flight control room at the
Johnson Space Center where at this hour
flight controllers working with their
colleagues at the Russian Mission
Control Center in the town of carof on
the outskirts of Moscow are preparing to
bid a farewell to three of the crew
members on board the International Space
Station for their return back to Earth
on the soyu's ms25 spacecraft the soyuz
ms25 which is docked to the prall node
module uh which in turn is linked to the
NAA multi-purpose laboratory module on
the earth facing side of the Russian
segment of the International Space
Station is the ticket home tonight for
NASA's Tracy Dyson and two Russian
cosmonauts from Ros Cosmos Alig kenko
and Nikolai chub kenko and Chu are
completing a an ISS record 37 4 days in
space since they were launched uh over a
year ago in September of
2023 Tracy Dyson is wrapping up a
mission of 184 days in duration 182 days
aboard the International Space
Station and there's our view inside the
cramped quarters of the pasal module as
you see Al kenko the so commander in the
green shirt on the right is NASA
astronaut Mike Barrett Tracy Dyson
bidding farewell to Ivon Vagner that you
see in the red
shirt as uh kenko in company there's
Nikolai Chu right behind
kenko the uh departing crew saying
farewell to the uh space station crew
that remains on board the International
Space Station
once uh kenko Chu and Dyson uh move into
the soyu vehicle the hatch to the pral
module will be closed and then a few
minutes later the hatch to the so
vehicle will be closed you can see in
the red shirt by the hatchway is Alexi o
chinin who launched 12 days ago along
with Don petett and Ivon Vagner on the
soyu's ms26 spacecraft from the bikon or
Cosmo Drome in Kazakhstan
Tracy Dyson launched back in March
her return uh on Monday morning uh will
wrap up her third flight into space and
will give her an aggregate total of 373
days in space on her three space
flights in the blue shirt in the
foreground is uh cosmina uh Alexander
greenin part of the crew eight crew that
will be returning to Earth on a SpaceX
Dragon spacecraft in early October and
there the three departing crew members
have now left uh the International Space
Station pral module they are inside
soyuz waving goodbye as they uh will
make final preparations once the hatches
are closed uh the crew will perform a
series of uh initial leak checks at the
docking interface between the soyu and
the bral module
before they will Dawn their soal launch
and entry
suits the uh three departing crew
members uh will be in The Descent module
the center section of the three section
soyu vehicle Conan Yenko is the soyu
commander will be in the center seat
flanked on his left by Nikolai Chu who
is board engineer number one for the
entry and Landing operations Tracy Dyson
will be on Keno's right as board
engineer number two
the uh space flight meteorology group
here at the Johnson Space Center has
issued a forecast for landing which
again in Kazakhstan will be about an
hour and 13 minutes before sunset on
Monday the uh initial forecast uh calls
for scattered clouds at 8,000 ft 28,000
ft Gusty winds but temperatures around
73° so the hatch to the soyu now closed
at 12:02 a.m. and now the hatch to the
pral module being closed so we have
hatch closure at 12:02 a.m. Central Time
10:2 a.m. eastern time on Monday morning
with the closing of the hatches uh leak
checks will get underway a short time
from now the crew will then Dawn their
SOA launch and entry suits and begin a
series of communications checks with the
Russian flight control team at the
Russian Mission Control Center in carof
on the outskirts of Moscow
standing by for undocking and there it
is 112
3620 separation is confirmed physical
IAL separation confirmed the soyu ms25
is free of its Mooring please uh
Expedition 71 is in the history books
Expedition 72 officially
underway copy
thank you and we wish you successful
lending thank you
Alex all those guys who are on the
station thank you so
much and see you on the
ground Expedition 72 Commander Sunny
Williams ringing the traditional Bell on
board the station to Harold the
departure of the soyu
ms25 the first of the two separation
Burns and 8C burn of the soyu engines
coming up at 339 and 302s a.m. Central
Time undocking occurring over Eastern
Mongolia
3 minutes after separation and Depo
thrusters are firing 4 seconds this is
the first of the uh two separation Burns
IND is not eliminated now we uh man
maneuver is
confirmed it's
um three and a half
degrees copy first of the two separation
Burns was reported to be nominal a
slight roll in the soyu as planned to
put it in the correct orientation for
the second of the two separation Burns
coming up in just about a
minute uh we have attitude Readiness
flag
copy the second of the two Burns will be
15 seconds in
duration the it will be the second burn
at
4:20 and it will be for 15 seconds
copy uh please provide a running
commentary we do not have video uh we
are observing station we can see station
in the cross hairs
um through
the Periscope uh 4:15 after separation
now we're receiving the video on the
ground and Depo is firing at 14 and the
second separation burn underway
and the burn is now complete and
good the burn is
complete goty 15 seconds
cop about 2 hours and 23 minutes from
now will be the deorbit burn it is scent
that will enable the soy to drop out of
orbit that will occur at the time that
the us is about 41 km away from the
International Space Station
work and Via Ros Cosmos television you
can see uh the soyuz descending under
its main parachute that white Vapor that
you see venting is
normal that white vapor is a combination
of hydrogen peroxide and oxygen vening
into the air this is deliberate to safe
the vehicle for landing so that no
hazardous gases remain in the tanks when
the soft Landing engines fire about 2
seconds before the vehicle touches
down there is the jettisoning of the
heat shield right on time this uh
exposes uh the
altimeter that feeds information into
the soil use computers about how high up
uh the soy is as it descends under its
parachute landing schedule just under 10
and 1 12 minutes from now it also
exposed uh the soft Landing engines
which will fire about 2 seconds before
touchdown and a final braking
maneuver and the sound you hear is a
radio Beacon signal that is being uh
received from the
soyuz basically uh another form of
uh Communications capability to uh
enable the search and Recovery forces to
precisely pinpoint where the soyuz is
descending to for its touchdown
point less than a minute until
touchdown this is 4 51 300 M
300 M off the
deck at this point uh the three crew
members will be bracing for
Touchdown unintelligible
touchdown right on the money a textbook
touchdown on the step of Kazakhstan at
6:59 a.m. Central Time 759 a.m. eastern
time 4:59 p.m. at the Landing site in
Kazakhstan Tracy Dyson is home after 184
days in space Al kononenko and Nikolai
chub are home after 300 74 days in space
a record for an International Space
Station
Mission here we can see the
first crew remember coming out the
castle and the first crew member likely
Al kenko the soyu commander being helped
out of the center seat and there he
is 374 days in space on this flight
waving to the crowd
1,111 days in space on his five space
flights he's now coming down the slide
and then he'll be moved into his chair
over right in front of the castle we
he'll be checked out by some of his
medical personnel and others and then it
looks like they're already working to
get the next crew member
out and looks like our next crew member
is coming out should be Tracy
Dyson tracing
and there's NASA astronut Tracy Tyson
making her way out she's turning around
and then she'll go down the
slide all smiles on her face currently
as she's being help
out and Tracy Dyson is being helped over
to her chair well she'll get those
initial medical checks before they move
into the orange medical tent uh about 50
yards away from
here Tyson wrapping up 184 days in space
373 days on her third space
flight that's it thank you
and there's Nikolai chb wrapping up the
first flight in his career a record
setting 374 days aboard the
International Space Station the longest
flight along with Conan Yenko for a
single flight on the orbital Outpost one
year ago Sergey procopio Dimitri patelan
and NASA's Frank Rubio wrapped up 371
days in space Gan Yenko and Chu be clips
that Mark last
Friday roses were given to Tracy Dyson
by Alec novitzki who was the soyu
commander with whom she launched with
back in March on what amounted to a taxi
flight for novitzki and borus space
flight participant Marina of
skaya that was uh the crew that brought
Laurel O'Hara
home after her six months aboard the
International Space
Station and again Tracy Dyson accepting
congratulations from uh members of the
search and Recovery forces within the
next few minutes these three crew
members uh having uh conducted conducted
a perfect uh entry and landing on the
step of Kazakhstan will be carried in
their chairs into this nearby inflatable
medical tent to get out of their soal
launch and entry suits and into more
comfortable
clothing so all three crew members are
now out they're sitting in their chairs
um for a few brief moments so since
Tracy uh Dyson was extracted from the
capsule she's had time to have a brief
medical check and then she also had a
chance to call some family and friends
um and then of course she's received
these gifts and um just a short while
from now we should see them carry off
into the medical T about 50 yards away
that big orange tent well they'll do
some additional um medical evaluations
use some field test and also change out
of their um entry and Landing suit into
a more comfortable flight suit um for
that ride back to Kanda from there uh
Tracy Dyson and the rest of the NASA
Personnel will board the NASA Gold
Street
and then we will begin our journey back
to Houston um expecting to arrive in
Houston early Tuesday morning and then
of course the BR creates will also board
their respective plane once we are back
at Konda
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