It’s Friday morning and everyone’s already eager to clock off from work, including astronauts Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas Pesquet, who will depart the International Space Station and head back to Earth just before 7AM ET. You can watch them do so live in the stream above, with the undocking procedure of their Soyuz capsule expected to start around 6.30AM. If all goes to schedule, the craft containing Novitskiy and Pesquet will perform its routine de-orbit burn at 09.17AM (firing the engines to slow the craft’s approach) before the pair land back on terra firma at roughly 10.10AM. How’s that for a commute home.
Pesquet (of the European Space Agency) and Novitskiy (of Russian space agency Roscosmos) have been on the ISS for a total of 196...
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