Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques returns to Earth
Time (listed in Eastern time) |
Description |
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16:10 |
Crew farewells and hatch closing (Kononenko, Saint-Jacques, McClain) |
19:24:00 |
Undocking command to begin to open hooks and latches that hold the Soyuz tight to the International Space Station (ISS) |
19:25:30 |
Undocking. With hooks opened, physical separation of Soyuz spacecraft from the Poisk module of the ISS at 0.12 metres/second |
19:28:30 |
Separation burn 8-second burn of the Soyuz engines, 0.53 metres/second Soyuz distance from the ISS is approximately 15-20 metres |
21:55:03 |
Deorbit Burn 4 minutes 41 seconds in duration, 128 metres/second Soyuz is approximately 32 kilometres from the ISS (Altitude: 432.7 kilometres) |
22:22:29 |
Separation of Module (Altitude: 139.9 kilometres) |
22:25:20 |
Entry interface (Altitude: 99.7 kilometres) |
22:26:49 |
Entry into Plasma and entry guidance begins (Altitude: 80.4 kilometres) |
22:31:36 |
Exit from Plasma and maximum G-loads (4-5 G's) on the crew (Altitude: 35.3 kilometres) |
22:33:37 |
Command to open chutes (Altitude 10.8 kilometres)
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22:47:53 |
Soft landing engine firing Six engines fire to slow the Soyuz descent rate to 1.5 metres/second, just 0.8 metres above the ground. |
22:47:55 |
Landing (08:47:55, on , local time in Kazakhstan). |