Monday, July 30, 2012

Soyuz craft carrying Russian-American crew lands safely

Almaty, Kazakhstan (AP) — a Soyuz space capsule carrying two Russians and American touched down safely Friday a sweeping btlim of central Kazakhstan, finish of the men on the 164 days are the international space station.

Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoli Ivanishin Daniel Burbank NASA returned to Earth as Russian-made module landed on schedule at a remote site, North of the town of Arkalyk, dusty, and then on its side.

NASA TV broadcast pictures of vibrant carrying capsule parachute swaying slightly as he floated down in it while six vtrktoroni terrain vehicles approached the landing. Search and rescue eight helicopters circled the landing site to ensure a quick recovery.

Shkaplerov, Central seat, the capsule was the first issued out, hoisted into the reclining chair. While the medical team and checked his wiped the his vital signs, and with his astronaut life extension.

Ivanishin, then laugh heartily, Burbank went through the same procedure a few minutes later.

Speaking of touchdown, NASA spokesman Rob Navias called it "Bullseye landing."

"The spacecraft landed almost exactly where is the weather," he said NASA TV.

United States Navy retirement shuttle left Russia's Soyuz spacecraft as a team to provide the only outpost in space.

A Soyuz capsule from space from 3 1/2 hours earlier, when it began to slow, from gentle drift away. About 60 miles (100 km) above the Earth, Soyuz from atmospheric re-entry, running its heat resistant shield forward to protect the passengers from space goat heat generated by friction with the air.

The team first began feeling gravity at almost half a year.

A little under 15 minutes of touchdown, with Soyuz travel at around 800 kilometres per hour (250 mph), a series of parachutes to deploy.

As it made its gradual, the ground control team member, not one identified "noted Anatoly (Ivanishin) must be real hungry now," that is to be expected "soup, some meat."

In the final minutes before touchdown, braking parachutes were jettisoned to make room for the parachute slows this rise ringed around module 25 kph (mph).

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko now stay space station commander took until July along with Don and Pettit NASA astronaotit, André Kuipers of the Netherlands.

They will now prepare for the arrival of the first shipment of commercial cargo space station in early May. Space exploration technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX's Dragon capsule, launches from Cape Canaveral on 30 April, the capsule will take several days to reach the space station.

It will be the first time supply space station launched a private company.

Space station will then its normal six team with the arrival of NASA astronaotit, Joe Acaba Russian colleagues Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin, who blast from the cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 17 May.


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