MOSCOW, Russia, jun. 18, 2016.- The recoverable capsule of the Russian Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft with three crew members on board, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, reported the Center Space Flight Control Russia.
descent module landed 147 kilometers from the city of Zhezkazgan in the Karaganda Region, Republic of Kazakhstan, said a spokesman for the Control Center quoted the Russian news agency Sputnik (formerly RIA Novosti).
in the capsule returned from a space mission the US astronauts Timothy Kopra (NASA) and the British Timothy Peake of the European space Agency (ESA, its acronym in English), as well as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (Roscosmos).
“the crew are well. After a medical examination, Malenchenko will be transported on a plane to Star City (outside Moscow), while Kopra and Peake will leave the United States and Europe, respectively,” he said Center spokesperson.
in the landing zone had deployed a rescue group composed of almost 200 troops equipped with 12 helicopters Mi-8, four aircraft Antonov An-12 and An-26 and 18 vehicles SUV.
on board the International Space Station (ISS) Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams remained.
the next month July add to them, the Russian Anatoli Ivanishin, Japanese Takuya Onishi and American Kathleen Rubins.
they crew of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft, whose launch was initially scheduled for June 24 but was postponed until July 7 by the need to make a series of additional tests.
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