NASA to broadcast International Space Station change of command on Jan. 12

NASA will provide live coverage of the International Space Station change of command ceremony starting at 2:35 p.m. EST Monday, Jan. 12 on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel.

As Crew-11 prepares to depart from the space station, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will hand command of Expedition 74 aboard the orbital complex to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.

Following Crew-11’s departure on Wednesday, Jan. 14, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman and Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov will splash down off the coast of California at approximately 3:40 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 15. NASA and SpaceX are reviewing weather conditions in the splashdown zones, which currently are favorable for return.

On Jan. 8, NASA announced its decision to return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to Earth earlier than originally planned as teams monitor a medical concern with a crew member currently living and working aboard the orbital laboratory, who is stable. Due to medical privacy, NASA said it is not appropriate to share more details about the crew member, and the agency will share more details about its coverage plans in the coming days.

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Science, International Space Station, Mike Fincke, Sergey Kud-sverchkov, Spacex