Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques returns to Earth

Crew farewells and hatch closing (Kononenko, Saint-Jacques, McClain)

Undocking command to begin to open hooks and latches that hold the Soyuz tight to the International Space Station (ISS)

Undocking. With hooks opened, physical separation of Soyuz spacecraft from the Poisk module of the ISS at 0.12 metres/second

Separation burn

8-second burn of the Soyuz engines, 0.53 metres/second

Soyuz distance from the ISS is approximately 15-20 metres

Deorbit Burn

4 minutes 41 seconds in duration, 128 metres/second

Soyuz is approximately 32 kilometres from the ISS

(Altitude: 432.7 kilometres)

Separation of Module

(Altitude: 139.9 kilometres)

Entry interface

(Altitude: 99.7 kilometres)

Entry into Plasma and entry guidance begins

(Altitude: 80.4 kilometres)

Exit from Plasma and maximum G-loads (4-5 G's) on the crew

(Altitude: 35.3 kilometres)

Command to open chutes

(Altitude 10.8 kilometres)

• Two pilot parachutes are first deployed, the second of which extracts the Drogue Chute.
• The drogue chute is then released, measuring 24 square metres, slowing the Soyuz down from a descent rate of 230 metres/second to 80 metres/second.
• The main parachute is then released, covering an area of 1000 metres; it slows the Soyuz to a descent rate of 7.2 metres/second; its harnesses first allow the Soyuz to descend at an angle of 30 degrees to expel heat, then shift the Soyuz to a straight vertical descent.

Soft landing engine firing

Six engines fire to slow the Soyuz descent rate to 1.5 metres/second, just 0.8 metres above the ground.

Landing (08:47:55, on June 25, local time in Kazakhstan).