MOSCOW – A Russian house capsule with two girls and one guy safely landed in a steppe in Kazakhstan on Saturday after their missions aboard the International Space Station.
The Soyuz MS-24 carrying Russia’s Oleg Novitsky, NASA’s Loral O’Hara and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus touched down southeast of the faraway the town of Dzhezkazgan at 12:17 p.m. Kazakh time (0717 GMT).
Those final at the orbiting outpost are NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson and Jeannette Epps in addition to Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenko.
O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending a complete of 204 days there, NASA mentioned.
Novitsky and Vasilevskaya blasted off to house on March 23, two days later than to start with deliberate. The release of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying them and Dyson, scheduled for March 21, was aborted at the very last minute because of a voltage drop in an influence supply, in line with Yury Borisov, head of Russia’s house company Roscosmos.
(*3*) resulted in a two-day, 34-orbit go back and forth to the house station for the crew. If the release had long gone as scheduled, the adventure would were a lot shorter, requiring best two orbits.
The house station, which has served as a logo of post-Cold War global cooperation, is now one in every of the ultimate final spaces of collaboration between Russia and the West amid tensions over Moscow’s army motion in Ukraine. NASA and its companions hope to proceed running the orbiting outpost till 2030.
Russia has endured to depend on changed variations of Soviet-designed rockets for industrial satellites, in addition to crews and load to the house station.
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