After spending 166 days aboard the International Space Station, Michael Hopkins, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy undocked from the station's Poisk module at 8:02 p.m. EDT to begin their voyage home. Kotov, the Soyuz commander, is at the controls of the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft.
They will perform a separation burn to increase the distance from the station before executing a 4-minute, 50-second deorbit burn at 10:30 p.m. The crew is scheduled to land at 11:24 p.m. southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
