NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Jonny Kim, Crewmates Return.

NASA, December 2025: NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, is preparing to depart the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and return to Earth.

Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky will undock from the station’s Prichal module at 20:41 Hours EST on Monday, December 08th, headed for a parachute-assisted landing at 00:04 Hours on Tuesday, December 09th (10:04 Hours local time in Kazakhstan), on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan.

Sunday, December 07th:

10:30 Hours – Expedition 73/74 change of command ceremony begins;

Monday, December 08th:

16:45 Hours – Farewells and hatch closing coverage begins on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.

17:10 Hours – Hatch closing

20:15 Hours – Undocking coverage beings on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.

20:41 Hours – Undocking

22:30 Hours – Deorbit and landing coverage begins on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.

23:10 Hours – Deorbit burn

Tuesday, December 09th:

00:04 Hours – Landing

For more than 25 years, people have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and making research breakthroughs that are not possible on Earth. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight and to expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit.

As commercial companies concentrate on providing human space transportation services and destinations as part of a robust low Earth orbit economy, NASA is focusing its resources on deep space missions to the Moon as part of the Artemis campaign in preparation for future human missions to Mars.

Team Maverick.