Watch as NASA astronaut Chris Williams wraps up an 8-month mission aboard the International Space Station by exchanging farewells before departure.
This was his first mission to space.
He and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will then enter the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft.
After the hatch is closed, the spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the orbiting laboratory’s Rassvet module at 3:04 a.m. EDT (0704 UTC) Sunday, July 26, heading for a parachute-assisted landing at 6:27 a.m. EDT (1027 UTC) on the steppe of Kazakhstan.
Learn more about the International Space Station: https://www.nasa.gov/station
Credit: NASA