:00:11. > :00:14.Good morning, guys, Martin here with Saturday's Newsround.
:00:15. > :00:16.First up, it's official - at this very moment,
:00:17. > :00:20.British astronaut Tim Peake is making his way back to Earth.
:00:21. > :00:22.After spending six months living in space on board
:00:23. > :00:28.the International Space Station, he's coming home.
:00:29. > :00:30.In these pictures, we can see Major Peake and his crew boarding
:00:31. > :00:33.the Soyuz capsule and saying a final goodbye to his crewmates
:00:34. > :00:45.The capsule detached from the space station at around 3:30 this morning.
:00:46. > :00:49.It's expected to land around 10:15 this morning.
:00:50. > :00:52.Tim's said the things he's most looking forward to on his return
:00:53. > :00:58.The pizza I understand, but I'm not so sure about the rain.
:00:59. > :00:59.BBC reporter Pallab Ghosh is at Mission Control
:01:00. > :01:04.Here he explains how what will happen to Tim's spacecraft
:01:05. > :01:20.Will get lower and lower until it gets low enough to break into three
:01:21. > :01:28.pieces. The middle section carrying the crew with -- will enter the
:01:29. > :01:34.thick part of the Earth's atmosphere. Parachutes will open,
:01:35. > :01:40.slowing the spacecraft down from four times the speed of sound to
:01:41. > :01:45.about 50 mph. Then one second before the spacecraft is due to land,
:01:46. > :01:49.thrusters will fire, slowing it down to about five miles per hour. Even
:01:50. > :01:50.so, they are still going to land with quite a bump.
:01:51. > :01:52.Well, Sarah Rainsford is in Kazahkstan, where Tim Peake
:01:53. > :01:55.will land, and can tell us more about the atmosphere
:01:56. > :01:58.there and what will happen when the Soyuz capsule touches down
:01:59. > :02:13.This is the steps in Kazakhstan, a huge open space. It is an error like
:02:14. > :02:19.this where Tim Peake will soon come hurtling back towards Earth. -- this
:02:20. > :02:23.is the Steppes. They are going to be disorientated and weak so there are
:02:24. > :02:27.rescue teams on hand to open the hatch and help them out onto solid
:02:28. > :02:32.ground. After that, there are medical checks, some photographs for
:02:33. > :02:35.the history books, then they will be taken by helicopter to the nearest
:02:36. > :02:37.town then back home to be reunited with their families after six months
:02:38. > :02:39.in outer space. Newsround's back just after midday
:02:40. > :02:43.with more on Tim Peake's return to Earth and all the rest
:02:44. > :02:45.of today's stories. Until then you can keep up to date
:02:46. > :02:53.with the day's news online.