Astronauts, cosmonaut hold down on Earth after months during Space Station
A plug carrying dual U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut from a International Space Station landed in snowy Kazakhstan on Wednesday after a five-and-a-half month mission, a NASA TV live promote showed.
The Soyuz booster brought behind Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei, from a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Alexander Misurkin, from Russian space group Roscosmos.
The plug landed in a sleet lonesome steppe some 130 kilometres southeast of a executive city of Zhezkazgan during 8.31 a.m. internal time.
Misurkin was a initial to emerge from a spacecraft, assisted by members of a Russian hunt and liberation team, and he was followed by Acaba — a initial Puerto Rican wanderer and a former schoolteacher — who smiled and done a thumbs-up gesture.
The contingent had spent five-and-a-half months during a ISS, a $100 billion US lab that flies about 400 km above Earth.
They are due to be transposed by NASA’s Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold, and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, whose booster will blast off from a Baikonur cosmodrome, also in Kazakhstan, on Mar 21.
Ground crew lift NASA wanderer Mark Vande Hei after alighting of a Soyuz MS-06 space plug Wednesday outward Dzhezkazgan (Zhezkazgan), Kazakhstan. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)
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