{"id":567694,"date":"2026-07-25T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/567694\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:23:25","slug":"nasa-astronaut-2-cosmonauts-returning-to-earth-on-july-26-watch-it-live-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/567694\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts returning to Earth on July 26: Watch it live"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A U.S.-Russian crew will return to Earth from the International Space Station early Sunday morning (July 26), and you can watch their homecoming live.<\/p>\n

A Soyuz<\/a> spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos<\/a> is scheduled to undock from the orbiting lab on Sunday at 3:02 a.m. EDT (0702 GMT).<\/p>\n

The Soyuz, known as MS-28, will land on the steppe of Kazakhstan about 3.5 hours later, at 6:26 a.m. EDT (1026 GMT). You can watch these milestones here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA.<\/p>\n

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Russia’s Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft is seen docked to the International Space Station shortly after its arrival on Nov. 27, 2026. | Credit: NASA<\/p>\n

The coverage starts today (July 25) at 9:40 a.m. EDT (1340 GMT) ahead of a change-of-command ceremony aboard the International Space Station<\/a> (ISS). Kud\u2011Sverchkov will hand over the reins of the orbiting lab to NASA astronaut Jessica Meir<\/a>, part of the transition from ISS Expedition 74 to Expedition 75 (which officially begins when Soyuz MS\u201128 undocks). You can watch that live via NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NASA will resume its webcast<\/a> tonight at 11:10 p.m. EDT (0310 GMT on July 26) to cover crew farewells and the closing of the hatches between the ISS and Soyuz MS-28, which is expected at 11:30 p.m. EDT (0330 GMT).<\/p>\n

Undocking coverage<\/a> begins Sunday at 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT). The stream will pick up again at 5:15 a.m. EDT (0915 GMT) for deorbit and landing activities<\/a>. Touchdown will occur southeast of the Kazakh city of Dzhezkazgan, according to NASA.<\/p>\n

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The Soyuz MS-28 crew pose on Nov. 26, 2025, a day before their launch. From left: Chris Williams of NASA and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. | Credit: NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/p>\n

Soyuz MS-28 launched to the ISS on Nov. 27<\/a>, which was Thanksgiving Day. That liftoff kicked off the first space mission for Williams and Mikaev and the second for Kud\u2011Sverchkov.<\/p>\n

When it’s all said and done, the trio will have spent 241 days in space on their current flight. They will have orbited Earth<\/a> 3,856 times and traveled a total of more than 102 million miles (164 million kilometers).<\/p>\n

After touchdown, the three spaceflyers “will fly by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where recovery teams are based,” NASA officials wrote in a media advisory. “Williams then will return to NASA’s Johnson Space Center<\/a> in Houston, while Kud\u2011Sverchkov and Mikaev head back to their training base in Star City<\/a>, Russia.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133590,61,2631,60,91,9332,82,239557,239556],"class_list":["post-567694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-chris-williams","tag-ie","tag-international-space-station","tag-ireland","tag-nasa","tag-roscosmos","tag-science","tag-sergei-mikaev","tag-sergey-kud-sverchkov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}