Three astronauts returned to Earth after spending 6 months in space – La Nacion (Argentina)

A Russian, an American and a British landed safely in Kazakhstan; next month another provision arrive at the International Space Station

The Soyuz space capsule lands with their parachutes deplegados. Photo: EFE

MOSCOW Three astronauts today successfully returned to Earth after spending six months on the International Space Station (ISS), reported the Control Center Spaceflight Russia.

the descent module of the Soyuz TMA-19M with three crew members on board, landed today as planned in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

the capsule returned Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and US astronaut Tim Kopra and Briton Tim Peak after half a year of stay in the International Space Station.

the three astronauts safe after six months in space. Photo: EFE

At home

In the relay NASA could see how the capsule “Soyuz TMA-19M” descended through the clouds hung a giant parachute. “The Soyuz 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.

a Russian helicopter and beside the capsule. Photo: Reuters

The British Peake smiled as he wiped 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: “íHora to fatten up a bit!”

Beside him, Malenchenko drank water as he looked relaxed the picture behind his sunglasses. 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)

In the space

On board the ISS were three crew. Russian Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, and the commander of the expedition, American Jeff Williams.

to them the Russian Anatoly Ivanishin will join the American Kathleen Rubins and Japanese Takuya Onishi, who take off on 7 July.

the International Space Station, a project of more than 100,000 million dollars in which 16 nations, orbiting more than 27,000 kilometers per hour about 400 kilometers from Earth.

involved agencies EFE and DPA