Soyuz MS-26 crew to return to Earth on April 20 - Roscosmos

MOSCOW. April 10 (Interfax) - The Soyuz MS-26 manned spaceship will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) and land on the Earth on April 20, Roscosmos said on Thursday.

"The Soyuz MS-26 spaceship operated by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit is due to undock from the International Space Station and perform the landing on April 20, 2025," Roscosmos said.

The undocking from the ISS is scheduled for 12:56 a.m., to be followed by landing on the Earth at 4:17 a.m., it said.

The Soyuz MS-26 crew arrived at the ISS on September 11, 2024.

The Soyuz MS-27 spaceship carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim arrived at the ISS on April 8.

A crew of ten, including Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Alexei Zubritsky, Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Kirill Peskov, NASA astronauts Donald Pettit, Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers and Jonathan Kim, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, is working at the station now.