Three NASA Astronauts Return Home From Space: Watch Live Stream Coverage Here

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and two crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) are currently preparing to leave space and return to Earth. For the momentous event, NASA has prepared a live coverage to feature the farewell ceremonies on the ISS as well as the scheduled landing of the three astronauts.

Hague, the flight engineer of the ISS will conclude his Expedition 60 mission on the massive orbiting station on Oct. 3. He will depart the station and return to Earth using Russia’s Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft.

The NASA astronaut will be joined by his fellow ISS crewmates Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and Hazza al-Mansoori, the first Emirati astronaut from the United Arab Emirates Space Agency. Ovchinin, the former commander of the ISS, handed over his duties to Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency before his departure.

According to NASA, the change of command ceremony took place on Oct. 2 at 9:20 am EDT. At 11:45 pm EDT, the remaining ISS crew members will bid their farewells to their three departing colleagues before closing the hatch of the Soyuz MS-12 closure. This will be covered in NASA’s live stream event.

The space agency’s live coverage will also feature the spacecraft’s undocking procedure from the ISS, which is scheduled to take place on Oct. 3 at 3:00 am EDT. This will be followed by the Soyuz’s deorbit burn starting at 5:30 am EDT.

The spacecraft carrying Hague, Ovchinin and al-Mansoori is expected to land at around 7:00 am EDT. According to NASA, the spacecraft’s parachute-assisted landing will happen southeast of a report part of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

After the spacecraft has landed, the crew members will be transported via helicopter to a recovery staging area in Karaganda. Hague will then be taken to NASA’s facility in Houston while al-Mansoori and Ovchinin will return to their training facility in Russia.

Aside from the Soyuz spacecraft’s landing, NASA will also host future live stream events to show the upcoming activities of the ISS. These include the upcoming spacewalks as well as a resupply mission by the Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft.