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A Soyuz capsule carrying Two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut from the International Space Station landed in Kazakhstan on Monday, ending a record stay for the Russian couple.
The capsule landed in the Kazakh steppe about three and a half hours after undocking from the space station in a seemingly uneventful descent.
In the last stage of landing, he descended under a red and white parachute to about 7.2 meters per second, with small rockets fired in the final seconds to cushion the landing.
The astronauts were removed from the capsule and placed in nearby chairs to help them adjust to gravity, then they were given medical examinations in a nearby tent.
Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub returned after 374 days aboard the space station; on Friday they broke the record for the longest continuous stay there. The American was also in the capsule Tracy Dysonwhich remained on the space station for six months.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko hands over station command to NASA astronaut Suni Williams at 10:15am ET on Sunday. Kononenko returns to Earth on Monday with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and cosmonaut Nikolai Chub. Watch here… https://t.co/mGhQ0R7u0t pic.twitter.com/mJM1txJLPs
— International Space Station (@Space_Station) September 21, 2024
Eight astronauts remain on the station, including Americans Butch Wilmore and Suni Williamswho have far exceeded their planned stay.
The two arrived in June as the first crew aboard the Boeing’s new Starliner capsuleBut its journey was marred by propellant problems and helium leaks, and the US space agency NASA decided that returning on the Starliner was too dangerous.
This is how they landed:
The spaceship of #Russia ????????Soyuz MS-25 landed successfully on Monday in #Kazakhstan ???????? where NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson traveled with her Roscosmos colleagues Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko. Together they broke the record for absolute permanence in space and the record for the… pic.twitter.com/b4uwHLM8ok
—News On Demand (@OnDemand_News) September 23, 2024
The two astronauts will return home with SpaceX next year.
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