After filming the first movie in space, a Russian crew is ready to head back to Earth.
After filming the first movie in space, Russian actress Yulia Peresild, producer-director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy are ready to head home.
Live coverage of the crew's return to Earth will air on NASA TV as well as the agency's website. After saying farewell to the rest of the astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station and closing the hatch at 4:41 p.m. ET on October 16, their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft will undock from the station at 9:14 p.m.The spacecraft will experience deorbit burn at 11:42 p.m., and they will make a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 12:36 a.m. ET on October 17.
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