Saturday, March 14, 2015

First Russian woman cosmonaut returns to Earth after six-month stay in ISS


#YelenaSerova #ISS #NASA #BarryWilmore #Kazakhstan #Soyuz The three astronauts including Yelena Serova, the first female Russian cosmonaut to have spent time on the ISS, have returned to Earth after a six-month stint in space as reported in news.sky.com dated 12 March 2015.
The other two are Alexander Samokutyaev of Russia and Barry Wilmore of America – they landed in Kazakhstan after spending 167 days on the International Space Station and travelling 70 million miles around the planet.
NASA has indicated that after successfully undocking, the capsule enjoyed a few hours of free flight and, communication links between the capsule and Earth were lost for a brief period. Anyway, the Soyuz landed safely under parachute on a landing site located southeast of Dzhezkazgan.
With their return, three astronauts now remain on the Space Station and they will be joined by more crew members on March 27. This would be a historic mission because two of them astronauts would remain on board for a whole year so that scientists can assess the impact of long-term missions on humans.
Incidentally, Russia has confirmed that it will continue to use the International Space Station in partnership with NASA until 2024.

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