An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed Thursday on the steppe of Kazakhstan, 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.
A NASA commentator who brought the floor crew’s communications to the landing site said the Soyuz descent module had landed upright and that the team was running to get the trio off the ship.
The three-man team had taken off without fanfare in April, and roughly a portion of the world’s population lived under national lockdowns imposed to involve the spread of the coronavirus.
The project coincided with the arrival at the area station in May of the first astronauts to take off from American soil for nearly a decade.
Tycoon Elon Musk’s SpaceX project as part of NASA’s commercial crew advertising program has helped advance discussions about a new “space race” between several countries.
Before returning from its third area mission, the former U. S. Navy SEAL and its allies in the United States and its allies in the Middle East have been able 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 leaving. Uncoupling.
“What is the value of returning to Earth?. . . . 8 blood tubes !! The 7 shown in this photo were taken in the morning to put them in our freezer, and the 8 will be taken just before to release to remedy the floor in a time after landing,” Cassidy wrote.
Vagner for the first time a rare presence of Roscosmos on the microblogging platform, where nasa’s maximum astronauts have a profile.
“Mom, I’m going home, ” tweeted wednesday the 35-year-old man.
Ivanishin is completing his third mission, after NASA’s Kathleen Rubins, with whom he presented the ISS in 2016, arrived for a moment aboard the station last week with Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos.
IsS is a rare cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
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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