Watch live: NASA astronaut Don Pettit and 2 cosmonauts returning to Earth

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station on Saturday (April 19) at 5:57 p.m. EDT and land about 3.5 hours later, at 9:20 p.m. EDT. Hatches between the Soyuz and the ISS, which is expected to occur at 2:25 p.m. EDT (1825 GMT). Watch it live here.

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