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Russia safely returns 3 cosmonauts from International Space Station
Three Russian cosmonauts returned safely on Thursday from a mission to the Worldwide Area Station.
The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov touched down softly at 4:57 p.m. at a chosen website within the steppes of Kazakhstan about 90 miles southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan.
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The trio arrived on the station in March. For Artemyev, the mission marked a 3rd house flight that has introduced his whole time spent in orbit to 561 days. Matveyev and Korsakov every logged 195 days on their first missions.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev who simply returned from a 195-day mission on the Worldwide Area Station, is pictured right here in Kazakhstan after his return from house on Oct. 4, 2018.
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Because the Soyuz capsule was descending on a giant striped red-and-white parachute beneath clear skies, Artemyev reported to the Mission Management that every one members of the crew had been feeling nice.
Helicopters assist groups landed minutes after to get better the crew. After a fast post-flight medical examination, the cosmonauts will probably be flown to the Star Metropolis cosmonaut coaching middle exterior Moscow later within the day.
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The station is presently operated by Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Area Company, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, and the Russian house company Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.