After eight months in orbit, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is about to depart the International Space Station (ISS) for the journey back to Earth.

Kim will be traveling home alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft.

The undocking will take place on Monday evening ET, with the final descent happening later that day. Read on for full details on how to watch a livestream of the main homecoming moments.

At the time of departure, Kim’s mission will have lasted 245 days. During his time 250 miles above Earth, he’ll have have orbited Earth 3,920 times and traveled nearly 104 million miles.

This was the first orbital adventure for both Kim and Zubritsky, and the third for Ryzhikov.

When not working on science research, Kim took time out

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