Watch live: NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts coming home from ISS today

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carring NASA's Tracy C. Dyson and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub is scheduled to land on the steppe of Kazakhstan on Monday (Sept. 23) at 8 a.m. Watch it live here and read our preview story.

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