Updated 09.26 | Published 09.16
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fullscreen Astronaut Marcus Wandt has been on the ISS for 17 days. Archive image. Photo: John Raoux/AP/TT
After seventeen full days aboard the International Space Station ISS, it is now clear when Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt will return to Earth.
At 3:05 p.m. this afternoon, he will leave the ISS and is expected to land in the ocean off Florida on Friday at approximately 2:30 p.m., writes the Swedish Space Agency in a press release.
Bad weather has prevented the journey home in recent days.
According to the plan, the journey home begins with Wandt and the three others getting into the capsule and closing the hatch to the space station. It takes place at 1.15 pm this afternoon. At 15.05 the capsule is disconnected and the landing takes place almost two days later.
Marcus Wandt shares the capsule and mission with Walter Villadei of Italy, Alper Gezeravci of Turkey and Michael López-Alegría, an American-Spanish former NASA astronaut with dual citizenship.