After more than six months in orbit, the Soyuz MS-17 mission has drawn to a close. The craft departed the International Space Station with undocking right on time at 21:34 EDT on Friday, 16 April (01:34 UTC on Saturday, 17 April).
Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Kate Rubins then conducted final landing preparations before the deorbit burn commenced at 00:01 EDT / 04:01 UTC on Saturday, 17 April followed by a landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 00:55 EDT / 01:55 UTC.