Spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Kikina onboard to undock from ISS on March 11 - NASA

WASHINGTON. March 9 (Interfax) - The manned spacecraft Crew Dragon developed by SpaceX with Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina in the crew is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on March 11, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on Thursday.

"The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the space station at 2:05 a.m., to begin the journey home," NASA said in its report.

"NASA and SpaceX are targeting 9:19 p.m. Saturday for a splashdown," the report said.

Besides Kikina, the spacecraft will return to Earth NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, and also Koichi Wakata, an astronaut of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). They arrived at the station on Crew Dragon's fifth regular mission on October 7, 2022 and spent in total five months there.

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Andrey Fedyayev, NASA astronauts Fransisco Rubio, Stephen Bowen, and Sultan Al Neyadi, an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates, will continue working on the station after the spacecraft leaves it.