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(29,876 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:20 AM Mar 2015

Soyuz Capsule Carrying 2 Russians, 1 American Returns From Space Station

Source: Associated Press

MOSCOW – A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, ending the astronauts’ nearly six months aboard the International Space Station.

The capsule carried Russians Alexander Samokutayev and Elena Serova and NASA’s Barry Wilmore, who blasted off for the space station on Sept. 26.

The capsule landed upright in heavy fog southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan on the Kazakh steppes. Despite the poor visibility, recovery workers arrived within several minutes and all three astronauts were extracted within a half-hour.

They were taken to recliner-style chairs set up near the capsule, to begin their readjustment to gravity and undergo brief medical tests. All three appeared in good condition. And Serova smiled broadly as she sat in the chair bundled up against temperatures a few degrees below freezing.

Read more: http://globalnews.ca/news/1878066/soyuz-capsule-carrying-2-russians-1-american-returns-from-space-station/

Damned 'Soviet junk' anyway...

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Soyuz Capsule Carrying 2 Russians, 1 American Returns From Space Station (Original Post) Purveyor Mar 2015 OP

We need more astronauts to go into politics bananas Mar 2015 #1

but but ... PUTIN! newthinking Mar 2015 #2

Instead we get musicians in space jakeXT Mar 2015 #4

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2015 #3

Old tech that works is often better than new tech that doesn't. nt bemildred Mar 2015 #5

but it doesn't bring the money flowing into San Jose or Armonk, so... MisterP Mar 2015 #6

Sometimes the old tech doesn't work either ga_girl Mar 2015 #7

bananas

(27,509 posts)

1. We need more astronauts to go into politics

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Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:27 AM

Mar 2015

They know how to work together.

newthinking

(3,982 posts)

2. but but ... PUTIN!

Reply to bananas (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 03:08 AM

Mar 2015

I am waiting for the inevitable putin tie in.

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

4. Instead we get musicians in space

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Thu Mar 12, 2015, 05:13 AM

Mar 2015

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bemildred

(90,061 posts)

5. Old tech that works is often better than new tech that doesn't. nt

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Thu Mar 12, 2015, 09:23 AM

Mar 2015

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

6. but it doesn't bring the money flowing into San Jose or Armonk, so...

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Thu Mar 12, 2015, 02:37 PM

Mar 2015

ga_girl

(183 posts)

7. Sometimes the old tech doesn't work either

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 10:05 PM

Mar 2015

Radios were out during a large part of the return trip.

http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/home/spacenews/files/031115_tma14M.html

Three space station fliers -- the outgoing NASA commander and two Russian cosmonauts -- undocked and returned to Earth Wednesday, ending a 167-day stay in space with a nail-biting communications blackout that left the crew out of contact with Russian flight controllers during much of the trip home.

The cause of the communications dropout was not immediately known, but during a brief exchange with recovery crews during the final stages of the descent, spacecraft commander Alexander Samokutyaev reported all three crew members were in good shape and proceeding to an on-target touchdown on the snowy steppe of Kazakhstan.

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