Three Astronauts Safely Return from Space Station, Landing in Kazakhstan Steppe (nasa.gov) 9
"Welcome home!" NASA posted on X.com, sharing footage of a successful "parachute-assisted" landing on a Kazakhstan steppe for the Soyuz MS-28, carrying three astronauts who'd spent 241 days on the International Space Station. (And YouTube has a full two-hour video with NASA's coverage of the landing.)
A NASA web page notes they orbited Earth 3,856 times and traveling more than 102 million miles after docking with the Space Station on November 27. It was the first mission for NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Mikaev (and the second mission for Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov). "After routine post-landing medical checks, recovery teams will fly the crew by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Williams then will board a NASA aircraft bound for the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston."
A NASA web page notes they orbited Earth 3,856 times and traveling more than 102 million miles after docking with the Space Station on November 27. It was the first mission for NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Mikaev (and the second mission for Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov). "After routine post-landing medical checks, recovery teams will fly the crew by helicopter to Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Williams then will board a NASA aircraft bound for the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston."
One small steppe for man (Score:5, Funny)
still using Soyuz? (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm a bit surprised they're not using Space-X for all of that by now? Maybe they need to periodically "refresh" the escape Soyuz docked at the station?
Re:still using Soyuz? (Score:5, Interesting)
Roscosmos uses SpaceX also, to ferry cosmonauts back and forth on occasion. Crews are mixed, and so are the flights back-and-forth. Plus the multi-country redundancy adds to safety.
where (Score:1)
-- Where?
-- To Karaganda.
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