Overview
- Soyuz MS-28, which undocked from the International Space Station early Sunday, made a parachute-assisted reentry and touched down southeast of Dzhezkazgan after about a 3.5-hour trip back to Earth.
- NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev ended a 241-day mission that logged 3,856 orbits and more than 102 million miles.
- All three crew members underwent immediate medical checks on the steppe, were flown by helicopter to recovery teams in Karaganda, and Williams will return to NASA’s Johnson Space Center while the two cosmonauts go to Russia’s Star City for rehabilitation.
- During the flight the crew ran biological and materials experiments, and conducted multiple EVAs including two spacewalks by Williams to prep power upgrades and repair the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
- Reentry followed the standard Soyuz sequence of module separation, high-temperature aeroballistic heating that forms a brief plasma cloud and radio blackout, parachute descent, and final soft-landing rockets, and the safe return preserves ISS staffing and science as Expedition 75 begins under Commander Jessica Meir.