[U: Safely Home On Earth!] Jonny Kim Returns To Earth Monday Evening... End, Of His ISS Mission.

We won't likely watch, but you may catch the return on NASA+ or YouTube.

This (his first ride in space) has been a wild one, largely due to chaos, on the ground in DC. You see -- for a portion of his stint, Tangerine 2.0 had suspended Kim's pay -- as "non-essential" (during the longest shutdown in US history). What kind of a rat-bastard treats a US astronaut in space that way?! Anyhoo -- here is the "coming home" schedule, and the transition news:

. . .NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, is preparing to depart the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and return to Earth.

Kim, Ryzhikov, and Zubritsky will undock from the station’s Prichal module at 8:41 p.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 8, headed for a parachute-assisted landing at 12:04 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9 (10:04 a.m. local time in Kazakhstan), on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan.

Watch NASA’s live coverage of the crew’s return on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media. . . .

NASA Flight Engineer Chris Williams, who arrived at the station with Flight Engineers Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev on Nov. 27, has stepped into his new role as a first-time station astronaut and assisted Kim inside the Quest airlock on Friday installing lights, cameras, and straps on a pair of spacesuit helmets. Williams then wore electrodes around his eyes as computerized medical gear operated by NASA Flight Engineer Zena Cardman sent light signals to test his retinal response in microgravity. . . .

Now you know. Onward, grinning.

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