March 12, 2015, 5:37 Moscow, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) members of the Russian crew of the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft returning to Earth after a mission of 169 days in orbit, were honored today with the Kalashnikov order of first degree by a military patriotic club.
Elena Serova first Russian woman to participate in an extended mission in the cosmos in the last 20 years, and his teammates Alexander Samokutyaev and American Barry Wilmore fell Thursday smoothly in the steppes of Kazakhstan, at the scheduled time.
After being assisted by a doctor and expert team, cosmonauts were transferred to Eyaterinburgo in the Urals, where they received the homage of Russian social organizations and sports Patriotic Union Mikhail Kalashnikov, reported TASS.
The capsule with the crew dropped to about 146 kilometers southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, at dawn on Thursday, from the International Space Station, where they remained for 169 days to conduct a series of experiments and scientific research.
They feel good, everything went according to plan, wrote the vice president of the Russian government Dmitry Rogozin on his Twitter account.
He commented Vice President in charge of the space industry was the best Serova All about blood pressure.
At 38, Serova became the fourth woman Russian cosmonaut and second to perform an extended mission after compatriot Elena Kondakova, who stayed in the MIR station during five months in 1994.
Its precursor was Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to travel into space, and Svetlana Savítskya, who is credited also to perform a spacewalk (1984).
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