A NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts will return to Earth on Wednesday (March 30), and you can watch their return.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov is scheduled to take off. The space station It was Wednesday at 3:21 am EDT (0721 GMT) and landed again on Earth in the steppe of Kazakhstan, a vast expanse of grass, about four hours later.
You can watch the return to Earth at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly through the air chamber. Coverage of the astronauts ’departures, as well as the closing of the walls around the Soyuz and the spacecraft, will begin Tuesday night (March 29) at 11:30 pm EDT (0330 GMT and Malachi 30). Cover opening will begin at 2:45 am EDT (0645 GMT), and a landing page will begin at 6:15 am EDT (1015 GMT).
Images: Construction of the International Space Station
Vande Hei spent a 355 -day mission at the airport, the longest time any American had spent at the last border. The first story was maintained by Scott Kelly of NASA, who spent 340 days on the orbiting lab from March 2015 to March 2016.
Dubrov will be returning home after 355 days in the open, but it’s not a Russian story. Valery Polyakov lives at the Russian airport Mir said from January 1994 to March 1995, spending 437 days off Earth.
The world has changed a lot like Vande Hei, Shkaplerov, Dubrov and their colleagues around it. For example, relations between Russia and the United States are much more complicated now, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began in Feb. 24.
NASA officials have demanded that the International Space Station continue to operate as usual with the invasion and economic sanctions imposed by the United States and other governments on Russia. . And spaceflyers have shared ideas that are consistent with these ideas.
“People are a problem on Earth. We are in orbit … one group, like brothers and sisters,” Shkaplerov said on Tuesday (March 29) during a press conference. change of orderwho saw him hand over the “keys” of the field to NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn.
Mike Wall is the author of “Outside“(Grand Central Publishing, 2018; edited by Karl Tate), a book about exploring alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or at Facebook.
