NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app are now broadcasting live coverage of the return to Earth of a veteran Russian cosmonaut and two Japanese private citizens.
The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will join spaceflight participants Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano will make its deorbit burn at 9:18 p.m. EST to set the spaceship on its re-entry through Earth’s atmosphere for a landing in Kazakhstan at 10:13 p.m. EST Sunday, Dec. 19. (9:13 a.m. Monday, Dec. 20, Kazakhstan time).
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I wanted to WATCH live coverage of this deorbit and landing.
The only live coverage was of the monitors at Mission control centers for Nasa and Russia.
There was NO LIVE coverage from the spacecraft or the air or the ground.
Waste of time in my estimation. NASA did not provide what they publicized.
Weather at the Kazakhstan landing site proved challenging to provide live video of the crew return.