MOSCOW, November 11 – RIA Novosti. manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-09M” with three members of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) and the Olympic torch will return to Earth Monday, November 11, RIA News spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Center (MCC) TsNIIMash.
on this ship to the ISS to return to Earth Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and astronaut from the European Space Agency (ESA) Luke Parmitano who work on the ISS since the end of May this year.
“Undocking” Soyuz TMA-09M “from the ISS is scheduled for 3.26 MSK November 11, ship’s engines for braking will be included in MSK 5.55, after which the ship will enter the dense layers of the atmosphere. capsule landed on the ship with cosmonaut and two astronauts scheduled for the same day, in MSK 6.49, 147 kilometers south-east of the city Zheskazgan (Kazakhstan), “- said the representative of the PMU.
Planting lander “Union” will provide aircraft, Mi-8 helicopters, search and recovery vehicles and several pieces of auxiliary equipment Rosaviation.
In addition, the site of the landing crew capsule “Union” will be on duty search and rescue team of the Central Military District (CVO), numbering 14 helicopters and 4 planes, 15 units of vehicles off-road, and about 250 troops.
Yurchikhin crew returns to Earth from the ISS Olympic torch, which was delivered to the station on November 7 crew of a new expedition – Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Richard Mastracchio and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.
As reported by RIA Novosti press-secretary of the Russian Cosmonauts Training Center (CTC) Irina Rogov, the torch will be passed to the landing site Yurchikhin representatives of the Russian Olympic Committee.
at the station from 7 to 11 November, it was just three crew (nine people) and three manned spacecraft “Soyuz” was docked to the ISS. After the arrival of the new crew to the station, which is delivered to the ISS Olympic torch relay held a kind of torch inside the station.
first torch carried by a Japanese station Wakata, after he got to the Italian Parmitano, then it was carrying NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, then he picked up the only lady at the station Karen Nyberg, who passed the torch to his colleague Richard Mastracchio. Rick, in turn, handed the Olympic symbol Tyurin, down the line it got Ryazan Russian cosmonauts Sergei and Oleg Kotov. The last torch carried by the ISS station commander Fyodor Yurchikhin.
On Saturday, November 9, held a unique event – the first in the history of the relay and the Olympic torch photo shoot in outer space. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazan carried symbol of the Olympic Games docking module “Pirs” of the International Space Station, and their colleagues remaining on board were able to photograph the unique ceremony of the portholes.
Torch passed Ryazan and Kotov photographed and filmed his colleague on the video. Then the astronauts are reversed, change the angle to each other and pass the torch. Pre astronauts fixed on the outer surface of the housing of a tripod, which is located inside the camera. The remaining members of the crew on board the ISS, in turn, took pictures of his colleagues from the FGB module and MIM-1, and from the windows of the review module Cupola.
at the station after returning to Earth Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will keep watch Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, who will become commander of the ISS instead Yurchikhin, Sergey Ryazan and Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins and Richard Mastracchio and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, which in March 2014 to become the first Japanese commander of the ISS after returning to Earth from the station Kotova.
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