Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts lands in Kazakhstan – radiofórmula

18 June 2016

the recoverable capsule of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19M with three crew members on board, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan, he reported the Control Center Russia Space flight

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Moscow.- the recoverable capsule of the Russian Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft with three crew members on board, landed in the steppes Kazakhstan, reported the Control Center Space Flight Russia.

“the descent module landed 147 kilometers from the city of Zhezkazgan in the Karaganda Region, Republic of Kazakhstan,” said one spokesman 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), besides the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (Roscosmos).

“the crew are fine. 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, “said the spokesman for the Center.

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 off-road vehicles.

aboard the International Space Station (ISS) Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams remained.

the next July will join 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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