MOSCOW (AP)– A Soyuz pill bring 2 Russians and one American from the International Spaceport station landed Monday in Kazakhstan, finishing a record-breaking remain for the Russian set.
The pill came down on the Kazakh steppe concerning 3 1/2 hours after undocking from the ISS in an evidently hassle-free descent. In the last phase of the touchdown, it came down under a red-and-white parachute at concerning 7.2 meters per 2nd (16 miles per hour), with little rockets terminated in the last secs to support the goal.
The astronauts were to be removed from the pill and put in close-by chairs to aid them get used to gravity, after that offered medical exams in a close-by camping tent.
Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub returned after 374 days aboard the spaceport station; on Friday they climaxed for the lengthiest constant remain there. Additionally in the pill was American Tracy Dyson, that remained in the spaceport station for 6 months.
8 astronauts stay in the spaceport station, consisting of Americans Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, that have actually continued to be lengthy past their arranged go back to Planet.
They showed up in June as the very first staff of Boeing’s brand-new Starliner pill. Yet their journey was ruined by thruster problems and helium leakages, and the united state area company NASA determined it was as well dangerous to return them on Starliner.
Both astronauts are to ride home with SpaceX following year.