April 17, 2020
Categories: Soyuz
Soyuz MS-15 crew on the way home

According to the International Space Station flight schedule, the transfer hatches between the Zvezda module and Soyuz MS-15 crewed spacecraft were closed at 22:44 UTC on April 16, 2020. In a few hours, at 01:53:15 UTC on April 17, 2020 the spacecraft routinely undocked from the Russian segment of the ISS. Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir are coming back to Earth.

According to TsNIIMash Mission Control Center (part of Roscosmos) preliminary calculations, the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft descent module is scheduled to land at 05:16 UTC 147 kilometers eastwards from the city of Zhezkazgan (Kazakhstan).

Live broadcast will be available at Roscosmos website starting from 04:50 UTC.

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