The crew of the manned transport spacecraft (WPK) “Soyuz MS-08” safely on the Ground today after undocking from the International space station, according to Roscosmos. The descent module landed in Kazakhstan steppe on 4 October 2018 14:45 Moscow time, cosmonaut of the Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev, NASA astronauts Andrew Feustel and Richard Arnold was met with a prompt rescue.
All operations were performed normally, the health of members of crew of “Soyuz MS-08” is assessed as good.
The astronauts returned to Earth
During the ISS-55/56 the crew of the descent module remained in space 197 days — March 23, 2018. All this time members of the crews conducted scientific applied research and experiments supported the efficiency of the ISS and carried out the work on its retrofit equipment, which arrived along with the cargo ships. Oleg Artemyev has also made access to the open space program flight Russian segment of the International space station.
This morning, October 4, 10:57 GMT manned spacecraft “Soyuz MS-08” with the crew on Board has successfully undocked from the ISS. The lander plan was supposed to be on the territory of Kazakhstan is 146 km South-East of Zhezkazgan city.
October 4, 2018 “Roskosmos” said the 61-anniversary of the beginning of the space age. On this day in 1957, went into space the first artificial Earth satellite development, the Soviet Union. In this day born in world space.
The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik-1 was the code designation PS-1 (the Simplest Satellite-1), weight 83,6 kg, a diameter of 0.58 m. the Launch was carried out from the 5th research landfill Ministry of defense of the USSR “tyura-Tam” (which was subsequently the open name the cosmodrome “Baikonur”) on the launch vehicle “Sputnik”, created on the basis of Intercontinental ballistic missile R-7.
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The crew of “Soyuz MS-08” returned to Earth unharmed
Ilya Hel