Nasa ISS return LIVE – Watch livestream as astronaut Mark Vande Hei flies to Earth from space station on Russian rocket

A NASA astronaut will finally fly home in just hours after Russia threatened to abandon him in space.

Mark Vande Hei, 55, is due to return from the International Space Station on March 29 and 30 onboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

Vande Hei and two Russian cosmonauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, are due to return to earth on Wednesday, March 30.

The three cosmonauts have been stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which orbits roughly 250 miles above Earth.

Nasa has said it will offer live coverage of the crew’s farewells, undocking, and landing from the ISS on NASA TV.

The farewell and hatch closure will go live on Tuesday, March 29 at 11.30pm ET (04.30am UK time). The undocking can be viewed at 02.45am ET (7.45am UK time), and lastly, the deorbit burn and landing will be live-streamed at 6.15am ET (11.15am UK time).

You can watch Nasa TV for free on Nasa’s website and official YouTube channel.

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