Russian Spacecraft From ISS With Three Crewmates Lands In Kazakhstan
Sumaira FH Published April 17, 2021 | 12:30 PM
MOSCOW, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 17th Apr, 2021) The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft, which undocked at night from the International Space Station (ISS) with two Russian cosmonauts and one U.S. astronaut on board, landed safely in Kazakhstan on Saturday, according to a broadcast by Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation.
The spacecraft crew includes Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, as well as US astronaut Kathleen Rubins, said a Sputnik report on Saturday.
They had lived and worked six months aboard the International Space Station, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the U.
S.
The crew departed the station in their Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft at 21:34 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Friday and landed safely under parachutes at 12:55 (10:55 Kazakhstan time) Saturday southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. It was the second spaceflight for Rubins and Ryzhikov and the first for Kud-Sverchkov, said the NASA report.
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