{"id":55180,"date":"2017-08-31T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-408714"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:00:43","slug":"nasa-television-to-air-return-of-three-international-space-station-crew-members","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-television-to-air-return-of-three-international-space-station-crew-members\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Television to Air Return of Three International Space Station Crew Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Expedition 52's Peggy Whitson of NASA, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=400,266 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=600,399 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=900,599 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=1200,799 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?resize=2000,1331 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA float through the Harmony module of the International Space Station. <strong>Credits: NASA<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Record-breaking NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/peggy-a-whitson\" rel=\"noopener\">Peggy Whitson<\/a> and her Expedition 52 crewmates are scheduled to depart the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\" rel=\"noopener\">International Space Station<\/a> and return to Earth Saturday, Sept. 2. NASA Television and the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/live\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> will provide complete coverage of their departure and landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whitson, fellow Expedition 52 Flight Engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/jack-d-fischer\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Fischer<\/a> of NASA and Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos will undock their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the space station at 5:58 p.m. EDT and land in Kazakhstan at 9:22 p.m. (7:22 a.m. Sept. 3, Kazakhstan time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Yurchikhin will hand over station command to NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/randolph-j-bresnik\" rel=\"noopener\">Randy Bresnik<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The complete schedule of return coverage is as follows (all times EDT):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>2:15 p.m. \u2013 farewell and hatch closure (hatch closure at 2:40 p.m.)<\/li><li>5:30 p.m. \u2013 undocking (undocking at 5:58 p.m.)<\/li><li>8 p.m. \u2013 deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn at 8:29 p.m. and landing at 9:22 p.m.)<\/li><li>11 p.m. \u2013 replay of hatch closure, undocking and landing activities<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of the impacts of Hurricane Harvey, NASA is reviewing return plans to Houston of Whitson, Fischer and the science samples landing in the Soyuz spacecraft. The crew will participate in standard post-flight medical evaluations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While living and working aboard the space station, the Expedition 52 crew pursued hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard humanity\u2019s only orbiting laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whitson is completing a 288-day mission that began in November 2016, spanning 122.2 million miles and 4,623 orbits of Earth \u2013 her third long-duration stay on the outpost. At the time of their landing, she will have accrued a total of 665 days in space over the course of her career, more than any American astronaut, placing her eighth on the all-time space endurance list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yurchikhin and Fischer, who launched in April, will complete 136 days in space. Yurchikhin will return to Earth with a total of 673 days in space on his five flights, putting him in seventh place on the all-time endurance list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of undocking, Expedition 53 will begin aboard the station under the command of Randy Bresnik. Along with his crewmates Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), the three-person crew will operate the station until the arrival of three new crew members. Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, are scheduled to launch Sept. 12 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/instagram.com\/iss\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Space_Station?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweets by Space_Station<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Whitson and Fischer on Twitter at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstroPeggy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweets by AstroPeggy<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro2fish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweets by Astro2fish<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>-end-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Schierholz<br>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br>\n202-358-1100<br>\nstephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov<br>\nDan Huot<br>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<br>\n281-483-5111<br>\ndaniel.g.huot@nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record-breaking NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and her Expedition 52 crewmates are scheduled to depart the International Space Station and return to Earth Saturday, Sept. 2. NASA Television and the agency\u2019s website will provide complete coverage of their departure and landing. Whitson, fellow Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA and Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":58397,"template":"","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"M17-100","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"MEDIA ADVISORY","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[]},"categories":[8358,2735,2861,2867],"news-tags":[12348],"internal-terms":[9514,9508],"coauthors":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"NASA Television to Air Return of Three International Space Station Crew Members","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-television-to-air-return-of-three-international-space-station-crew-members\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-television-to-air-return-of-three-international-space-station-crew-members\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg"},"articleSection":"Missions","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NASA"}],"creator":["NASA"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":["NASA Centers & Facilities","NASA Headquarters","Expedition 52","International Space Station (ISS)","Johnson Space Center"],"dateCreated":"2017-08-31T23:46:00Z","datePublished":"2017-08-31T23:46:00Z","dateModified":"2023-07-26T19:00:43Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"NASA Television to Air Return of Three International Space Station Crew Members\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-television-to-air-return-of-three-international-space-station-crew-members\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"post\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2017-08-31T23:46:00Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"Missions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-tags\" content=\"NASA Centers & Facilities,NASA Headquarters,Expedition 52,International Space Station (ISS),Johnson Space Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"NASA\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":3,"featured_image":{"id":58397,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/exp52-jpg.jpg","title":"exp52-jpg","alt":"Expedition 52's Peggy Whitson of NASA, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Jack Fischer of NASA","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370187,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55180\/revisions\/370187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55180"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=55180"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=55180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}