CLICK FOR SPECTACULAR ZOOM Soyuz 35S at night docked to the International Space Station. Soyuz 35S departed Station for Earth on Sunday, November 10, 2013, with the Falcon I SSEP experiments payload aboard.

Today, astronauts Michael Hopkins (USA), Oleg Kotov (Russia), and Sergey Ryazanskiy (Russia), return to Earth on Soyuz 36S (Soyuz TMA-10M) along with the Falcon II payload of 12 SSEP Mission 3b experiments and the Orion payload of 11 SSEP Mission 4 experiments. Milestone events are being covered live on NASA TV. Below is the NASATV schedule. If you wish you can watch live right here at the SSEP website.

WATCH LIVE RIGHT HERE ON THE NASA TV PORTAL BELOW

March 10, Monday
4:30 p.m. – ISS Expedition 38 Farewells and Hatch Closure Coverage (hatch closure scheduled at 4:45 p.m. ET) – JSC (All Channels)
7:45 p.m. – ISS Expedition 38/Soyuz TMA-10M Undocking Coverage (undocking scheduled at 8:02 p.m. ET) – JSC (All Channels)
10:15 p.m. – ISS Expedition 38/Soyuz TMA-10M Deorbit Burn and Landing Coverage (Deorbit burn scheduled at 10:30 p.m. ET; landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan scheduled at 11:24 p.m. ET) – JSC via Kazakhstan (All Channels)

NASA TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.Ux37dCjn1sQ

The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S., and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic partnership with NanoRacks LLC, working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement as part of the utilization of the International Space Station as a National Laboratory. SSEP is the first pre-college STEM education program that is both a U.S. national initiative and implemented as an on-orbit commercial space venture.

The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), and Subaru of America, Inc., are National Partners on the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program.