On this picture taken from video launched by Roscosmos area company, Russian Soyuz MS-25 area capsule carrying the NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and the Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub lands south-east of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Monday. (Roscosmos area company through AP)
MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the Worldwide House Station landed Monday in Kazakhstan, ending a record-breaking keep for the Russian pair.
The capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe about 3 1/2 hours after undocking from the ISS in an apparently trouble-free descent. Within the final stage of the touchdown, it descended beneath a red-and-white parachute at about 7.2 meters per second (16 mph), with small rockets fired within the last seconds to cushion the landing.
The astronauts have been to be extracted from the capsule and positioned in close by chairs to assist them modify to gravity, then given medical examinations in a close-by tent.
Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub returned after 374 days aboard the area station; on Friday they broke the document for the longest steady keep there. Additionally within the capsule was American Tracy Dyson, who was within the area station for six months.
Eight astronauts stay within the area station, together with Individuals Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who’ve remained gone their scheduled return to Earth.
They arrived in June as the primary crew of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule. However their journey was marred by thruster troubles and helium leaks, and the U.S. area company NASA determined it was too dangerous to return them on Starliner.
The 2 astronauts are to journey residence with SpaceX subsequent yr.
