After eight months in orbit, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is about to depart the Worldwide House Station (ISS) for the journey again to Earth.

Kim will likely be touring house alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft.

The undocking will happen on Monday night ET, with the ultimate descent occurring later that day. Learn on for full particulars on the right way to watch a livestream of the principle homecoming moments.

On the time of departure, Kim’s mission could have lasted 245 days. Throughout his time 250 miles above Earth, he’ll have have orbited Earth 3,920 occasions and traveled almost 104 million miles. 

This was the primary orbital journey for each Kim and Zubritsky, and the third for Ryzhikov.

When not engaged on science analysis, Kim took trip to share posts documenting a few of his experiences aboard the orbital lab. They included a stunning time-lapse of an aurora, how to vacuum in microgravity conditions, and the challenge of trying to make sushi in orbit (it didn’t look so appetizing). He did a bit better with a burger. 

The way to watch

Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky will undock from the station’s Prichal module at 8:41 p.m. ET on Monday, December 8, with protection startng at 8:15 p.m. ET.

Protection of the spacecraft’s deorbit and touchdown will start at 10:30 p.m. on Monday, with the deorbit burn anticipated to happen at round 11:10 p.m. ET. 

The journey house will contain the spacecraft touring at 17,500 mph earlier than slowing quickly because it enters Earth’s ambiance.

The Soyuz spacecraft’s parachute-assisted touchdown will happen simply after midnight, at 12:04 a.m., on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of town of Dzhezkazgan, about 1,500 miles south-east of Moscow.

You possibly can watch NASA’s reside protection of the crew’s return on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the house company’s YouTube channel. You may as well watch through the participant embedded on the high of this web page.