ALMATY (Reuters) – three astronauts aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule landed Tuesday in Kazakhstan after spending nearly six months on the space station (ISS), the first return of such international from NASA gave low to its shuttle fleet this summer boreal.
Astronaut Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa Japanese and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov landed the 0226 GMT, shortly before dawn in the nevada steppe Kazakh, showed images of NASA TV.
“The landing was great.” “All are well,” said Volkov, making a gesture of approval with the thumbs up then was removed from the capsule Soyuz TMA-02, according by the extreme temperatures which endured during its re-entry to the atmosphere
After the closure of the program of NASA, the Russian ships ferry became the only route to transport supplies and people and the $ 100 billion ISS, built by 16 Nations, until commercial firms to develop the capacity to transport astronauts from.
Russia hopes to perfect landing allowed to restore confidence in its special programme since an accident in August which involved an unmanned cargo ship temporarily suspended its missions with astronauts.
(Additional report of Dmitry Solovyov.) (Edited by Carlos Aliaga in Spanish)
