An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely on the steppe of Kazakhstan on Thursday, completing a 196-day project that began with the first launch in blocking conditions.
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner landed about 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan at 0254 GMT, Russian firm Roscosmos reported.
Images of the landing showed Cassidy sitting banging her elbows with one team member in recovery and greeting another after leaving the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft, before being taken to medical tents before his travels to Moscow and Houston.
I said, “How’s it going?” Cassidy in Russian, smiling.
The three-man team had taken off without fanfare in April, and about a portion of the world’s population lived under national blockades imposed to involve the spread of coronavirus.
They were not faced with questions from a press kit in Baikonur and were not ignored by the circle of family and friends, two ancient traditions before the pandemic.
Their pre-flight quarantine was also intensified, as they have moved away from the same old sightseeing visits to Moscow from their educational base outside the Russian capital.
His project also coincided with the arrival at the area station in May of the first astronauts to take off from American soil for nearly a decade.
The mission, led through the SpaceX company of tycoon Elon Musk and NASA’s commercial crew advertising program, helped drive discussions about a new “space race” between several countries.
But Russian Roscosmos, who enjoyed a lucrative monopoly to and from the area station starting in 2011, remains the fastest player in the game in terms of round trip to the ISS.
Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley’s May to the area station and August’s return to Earth on the SpaceX spacecraft allowed the two men to spend the most productive two-day game in transit.
The landing of Cassidy, Ivanishin and Vagner on Thursday, however, arrived here less than three and a half hours after the decoupling, while a team of 3 arrived on the ISS from Baikonur in just 3 hours and 3 minutes last week, establishing a new -Time Log. .
Before returning from his third mission in the area, the former U. S. Navy SEAL was not the only one in the world to do so. But it’s not the first time Cassidy, 50, tweeted a photo of blood samples that astronauts will have to send at other points in their mission, adding just before landing.
“What is the value of returning to Earth?. . . . 8 blood tubes !! The 7 shown in this photo were taken in the morning to be placed in our freezer, and the 8 will be taken out just before to release them. to remedy the floor in a time after landing,” wrote Cassidy, a sudoku fanatic.
Vagner for the first time a rare presence of Roscosmos on the microblogging platform, where the maximum number of NASA astronauts have a profile.
“Mom, I’m going home, ” tweeted wednesday the 35-year-old man.
Ivanishin, 51, is completing his third mission, after NASA’s Kathleen Rubins, with whom he embarked on the ISS in 2016, arrived for a moment aboard the station last Wednesday with Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos.
The ISS has been a rare cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
Members recently reported disorders in the oxygen production system, oven and oven to prepare food.
But Roscosmos said on a Tuesday that the disorders had been “completely resolved through the crew. “
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“All station systems are up and running and there is no danger to equipment or ISS. “
Next month will mark the twentieth anniversary of the permanent human profession of the orbiting laboratory, the station is expected to be dismantled over the next decade due to structural fatigue.
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