Soyuz MS-20 Undocks and Lands

The crew of Soyuz MS-20, spaceflight participants Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano and now three-time professional cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin have landed in the Kazakh Steppe in Kazakhstan after 12 days on the International Space Station completing a mission bought by Maezawa through Space Adventures.

Soyuz MS-20 launched on December 8. After six hours of flight, Soyuz docked to the Poisk module of the International Space Station. Yuskau Maezawa spent his time recording YouTube videos and doing experiments for JAXA (The Japanese Exploration Agency).

Undocking from the Poisk module occurred on December 19 at 6:50pm ET (23:50 UTC). At 2:18 UTC on December 20, thrusters fired for the de-orbit burn to place Soyuz on a sub-orbital trajectory and commit it to landing. This burn lasted four minutes. At 2:47 UTC the service module and Orbital Module seperated from the Landing Module, to which the crew had moved to. Landing occurred at December20 at 3:13 UTC (10:03pm ET on December 19). Yusaku Maezawa plans go to space again no earlier than 2023, but this time around the moon on SpaceX's Starship rocket and spacecraft, pending Starship testing and flight tests.