3 astronauts to return on Earth abroad Russian spacecraft

Washington: Three Expedition 59 crew — NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency — are set to ride back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft would undock from the ISS at 5 a.m. (India time) on Tuesday morning and land in Kazakhstan later in the night. Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague would continue their stay aboard the orbiting lab. The crew is completing a 204-day mission spanning 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a journey of 86.4 million miles. McClain’s first trip into space has been a busy mission. (IANS)

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