ISS Astronauts Touch Down After EPIC Stay
Posted: November 22nd, 2011 | Author: M.Aaron Silverman | Filed under: Favorite New Thought, NASA, Science News, Solar Stars | Tags: Favorite New Thought, International Space Station, ISS, Mike Fossum, NASA, Russian Soyuz Capsule, Satoshi Furukawa, Science News, Sergei Volkov, Solar Stars, Video, Youtube | No Comments »
Three astronauts have landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after a stay of over five months aboard the International Space Station.
American Mike Fossum, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia’s Sergei Volkov touched down outside the remote settlement of Arkalyk just before sunrise on Tuesday after undocking from the ISS earlier in the day. It was during their stay on the ISS that a Russian unmanned Progress supply ship carrying supplies for the station crashed into Siberia in August, forcing a rethink of the timetable for manned spaceflight.
The three astronauts had spent 167 days in space – slightly more than the 161-day mission envisaged as the return was delayed by almost a week due to the Progress mishap. Russian State television pictures showed the astronauts extracted from the capsule apparently in good health.
The Soyuz capsule landed on its side rather than its bottom after its descent to Earth with a parachute, mission control said, but such a landing was not unusual. Read the full article »»»»
