Three astronauts who had spent six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) landed yesterday in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
As confirmed by the central Moscow is Tim Kopra, the US space agency Nasa; Tim Peake, the European ESA, and Yuri Malenchenko, the Roscosmos Russian, who returned to Earth aboard a Soyuz capsule.
In the relay NASA could see how the capsule Sojuz TMA-19M descended through the clouds hung a giant parachute. “The Sojuz is at home,” said a spokesman. The maneuver went as planned.
“The crew is well,” said the astronauts, even from the capsule. A team of about 200 people waiting at the landing point, located about 150 kilometers southeast of the city of Shesjazgan, in the center of the former Soviet republic.
The British Peake he smiled to wipe the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, sitting under the Kazakh sun as he performed the first medical checkup. “It was amazing,” he said before the cameras of NASA. Shortly before embarking on the return had written in his Twitter. “! Time to fatten a little”
Beside him, Malenchenko drank water as he looked relaxed the picture behind his glasses Sun. It was his sixth trip, and with the latter now totals 828 186 days in space. This puts it in second place after the Russian Gennady Padalka (878).
The NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi, Japanese space agency , they are scheduled to leave on July 6 from the Kazakh Baikonur to replace newcomers. The launch was originally planned for June 24, but was delayed due to technical problems.
On board the space station were Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, and astronaut Jeffrey Williams of NASA.
The International Space Station, a project of more than 100,000 million dollars in which 16 nations participate, orbiting more than 27,000 kilometers per hour about 400 kilometers from Earth.
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