I caught two brief references to preparing for a water landing?? One was from the guy in the red "rescue?" jacket who pinned a medal on the lead helicopter pilot after the landing. One was during a replay of the astronauts being carried to the medical tent where I think someone said "we went swimming once" or something like that. Obviously today's landing was a pinpoint landing right on target. I imagine these references were simply discussions of standard preparation for any off nominal landings. Where is the nearest body of water? Are there lakes in the general area of potential landing zones?
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos were greeted in a traditional ceremony at the airport in Karaganda, Kazakhstan April 10, a few hours after landing in their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft in Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan. After the ceremony, the crew split up, with Ryzhikov and Borisenko returning to their training base in Star City, Russia, while Kimbrough flew back to his home in Houston on a NASA jet. The trio spent 173 days in space.
Press conference of Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei BorisenkoToday, the post-flight conference of the Russian crew members Soyuz MS-02 was held at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. The commander of the transport manned spacecraft Sergei Ryzhikov and flight engineer Andrei Borisenko told about a six-month expedition, shared the feelings of landing and answered all questions of interest to journalists.
Soyuz capsule suffered partial depressurization during April landingby Jeff Foust — October 17, 2017WASHINGTON — A Soyuz spacecraft returning three people to Earth in April experienced a partial loss of pressure during the final stages of its descent, but did not put the crew’s lives in danger.