The spacecraft "Soyuz MS-13" undocked from the ISS and returns to Earth
The spacecraft "Soyuz MS-13" with Russian Alexander Skvortsov, American Christina cook and Italian Luca Parmitano undocked from the international space station and returned to Earth, reports journalist Last news from the mission control Center (MCC).
The spacecraft "Soyuz MS-13" with Russian Alexander Skvortsov, American Christina cook and Italian Luca Parmitano undocked from the international space station and returned to Earth, reports journalist Last news from the mission control Center (MCC).
"There is a discharging mode of decoupling," said a commentator at Mission control.
at the station to wait for the next ship with the crew remain the citizen of Russia Oleg skripochka and Americans Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan.
The propulsion system of the "Union" will work on braking at eleven: 18 GMT, after which the Ship is divided into compartments and enter the atmosphere. The main parachute must open up at eleven: 58 GMT. Landing of the lander is expected at 12: 13 Moscow time 147 km South-East of Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.
"Soyuz MS-13" arrived on station July 21, 2019 with Skvortsov, Parmitano and Morgan. Cook arrived earlier fifteen March 2019 with the Russian Aleksey Ovchinin and American Nick Haig. Haig and Ovchinni returned on 3 October, to the same place cook then took the 1st astronaut UAE Hazza al Mansouri. He arrived on the ISS with a Violin and Meir on September 26.
so, cook, stay on station for 3 months (in total she stayed in orbit 328 days), became the record-holder among female US astronauts, surpassing Peggy Whitson, the Flight stayed in orbit of 290 days.
Now ISS going "Soyuz MS-16," He will become the first manned spacecraft launched on a new version of the rocket " Soyuz-2. 1A ". The flight was scheduled for April 9, in the Main crew includes Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Tikhonov and Andrei Babkin, an American astronaut Christopher Cassidy.
Prior to this the only ship that began on a new missile was " Soyuz MS-14 ". He docked with the station at the second attempt on 27 August 2019. The passenger test vehicle was anthropomorphic robot " Fedor ".
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