Author Topic: Soyuz MS-06 EOM Events (Undock, Entry, Landing) February 28, 2018  (Read 20673 times)

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Move to medical tent.
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Removing some initial cargos...
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Hey Everybody- Enjoy this wonderful ritual while we still can. Thanks Centaurinasa; it's very important people still care about these very hard, grueling and valuable missions, at least IMHO!

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Closeup of Capsule's window...
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Back to Mission Control Houston...
(VVO console empty now)
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Director of the Johnson Space Center, Ellen Ochoa.
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Soyuz MS-06 hatch closure, undocking, departure and landing


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After initial medical examination, the crew will fly to Zhezkazgan (and then to GCTC for Misurkin and JSC for Vande Hei and Acaba).
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End of NTV coverage (thanks to Rob Navias great coverage)
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Hey Everybody- Enjoy this wonderful ritual while we still can. Thanks Centaurinasa; it's very important people still care about these very hard, grueling and valuable missions, at least IMHO!
These missions has become a victim of their own success. Like it or not, but people nowadays want drama (and space nuts are not an exception unfortunately), and there is none of it here. Then there is undoubtedly some politics involved as well.

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February 28, 2018
RELEASE 18-010
NASA Astronauts Return to Earth, Land Safely in Kazakhstan

Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei
 and Joe Acaba
, returned to Earth on Tuesday after months of performing research and spacewalks in low-Earth orbit.

Vande Hei, Acaba and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 9:31 p.m. EST (8:31 a.m. Feb. 28 in Kazakhstan) southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

Their time on station marked the beginning of the first long-term increase in crew size on the U.S. segment, enabling NASA to double the time dedicated to research and achieve a record-setting week of research that surpassed 100 hours
. Highlights from this research include investigations into the manufacturing of fiber optic filaments
 in microgravity, improving the accuracy of an implantable glucoses biosensor
, and measuring the Sun’s energy input to Earth
.

The crew also welcomed four cargo spacecraft
delivering several tons of supplies and research experiments. Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft arrived at the station in November on the company's eighth commercial resupply mission, followed in December by SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on the company’s thirteenth resupply mission. Two Russian ISS Progress cargo craft arrived at the station in October and February.

Vande Hei logged 168 days in space on this, his first, mission. He ventured outside the space station on four spacewalks
 to perform work that included replacing and lubricating the Latching End Effectors on both ends of the Canadarm2. Acaba completed one spacewalk to lubricate an end effector and install new cameras on the station’s arm and truss. He now has accrued 306 days in space on three flights. Acaba and Vande Hei also participated in dozens of educational events while in space as part of NASA’s Year of Education on Station
.

Misurkin conducted one record-setting spacewalk with fellow cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov to replace an electronics box for a high-gain communications antenna on the Zvezda service module in February. The spacewalk timed out at 8 hours and 13 minutes, the longest in Russian space program history. Misurkin now has spent 334 days in space on two flights.

Now operating the station are Expedition 55 crew members Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Scott Tingle
 of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Astronauts Ricky Arnold
 and Drew Feustel
 of NASA, and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch March 21 and arrive at the space station two days later, returning the crew size to six.

Learn more about the International Space Station at:

https://www.nasa.gov/station

Get breaking news, images and features from the station on social media at:

https://instagram.com/iss
 

and

https://www.twitter.com/Space_Station
   

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Some photos from NASA's Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/


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And some photos from Roscosmos - http://en.roscosmos.ru/20715/

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Nice landing compilation video of TsPK in HD


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Vande Hei and Acaba safely returned at Ellington (Houston) on March 1.
Credit pics + video: ISS & JSC facebook

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The ladies are Tracy Caldwell-Dyson and Shannon Walker?
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The ladies are Tracy Caldwell-Dyson and Shannon Walker?

Yep, and Bresnik plus Forrester (Chief astronaut) are also present.

Meanwhile, Misurkin arrived at Chkalovsky airfield near Star City. He already underwent some postflight medical tests, and held a press conference on March 2.

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