LIVE: Soyuz TMA-19M EOM Events (Undock, Entry, Landing) - June 18, 2016

[Star One]

What are his chances of getting another mission?

I would say it's money well spent for inspiring the young into science alone & raising awareness of the space industry sector in the UK.

Anyway he's been a great advert for the UK & it's good to see him safely back on Earth.

[Chris Bergin]

Tim Kopra is feeling it (being sick).

[jacqmans]

Press Release
N°25-2016

Paris, 18 June 2016

Tim Peake returns to Earth

ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko landed safely today in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. They left the International
Space Station at 05:52 GMT at the end of their six-month stay on the research complex.

Soyuz TMA-19M braked from the Station's cruising speed of almost 28 800 km/h and entered the atmosphere shortly afterwards. The crew module separated as planned and parachutes deployed to slow the vehicle even more.

Retrorockets fired moments before landing and springs in the moulded seats reduced the impact of hitting the ground at 09:15 GMT. Teams were on hand within minutes to help them out.

They leave behind three astronauts to look after the Station and run experiments. The next launch to complete the crew is scheduled for 7 July on an upgraded Soyuz with cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin, Japanese astronaut
Takuya Onishi and NASA's Kate Rubins.


Principia

Tim Peake's Principia mission was an eventful and busy six months in space. In the first month after his launch on 15 December 2015, Tim conducted a spacewalk. He also drove a rover across a simulated Mars terrain
from space and helped to dock two spacecraft.

Tim took part in numerous experiments for ESA and international partners. Highlights include using the Space Station airlock to study Tim's lungs, monitoring his sleeping patterns to learn how humans adapt to life
without normal daylight, and recording how many calories he consumed to prepare for missions further from Earth.

Many experiments ran continuously while Tim and his crewmates were maintaining the weightless research laboratory. ESA's Expose facility was returned to Earth after submitting organisms and chemicals to 18 months
of travelling unprotected in space on the outside of the Station. 

The Solar facility on Europe's Columbus laboratory module continues to monitor our Sun after eight years of continuous observations. Another facility is tracking ships as the Space Station flies overhead.

Aside from his maintenance and science duties, Tim also enthralled the world via social media and ran a marathon in space. The next ESA astronaut to travel to the Station will be Thomas Pesquet of French nationality,
scheduled for launch in November. 


Back to the European Astronaut Centre

Tim is the eighth ESA astronaut to complete a long-duration mission in space. He will be the third after Alexander Gerst and Andreas Mogensen to fly directly to ESA's astronaut home base in Cologne, Germany, for
medical checks and for researchers to collect more data on how Tim's body and mind have adapted to living in space. 

[Chris Bergin]

He's all good now.

[Chris Bergin]

Shoved the Soyuz back upright.

[Targeteer]

Jeff Williams just called down the remaining crew's thanks and congratulations on their crew mates' successful landing and return.  They watched it live on NASA TV but somehow the channel got changed and they've requested it be put back on

[Targeteer]

Good replay of the actual crew removal with checklists and gloves being passed first through the open top hatch--which looks awfully small.

[Chris Bergin]

Not the best choice of t-shirt...per the comments on Twitter.

[Targeteer]

Is the orange "thing" on the outside of the Soyuz a life raft in case of water landing?

[Mapperuo]

[John44]

Expedition 47 - Soyuz TMA-19M Landing
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9880

Expedition 47 - Soyuz TMA-19M Landing Replay
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9881

[Rocket Science]

Welcome home, well done!

[robertross]

Welcome back to planet earth. Glad everyone is safe.

Thanks for the coverage guys.

[Rocket Science]

The Queen should buy Tim a pint...

[dawei]

The shots of the Moon with the Soyuz were epic.  The Nasa PAO should have intoned "That's no moon...." as an ode to Star Wars but I guess many would have missed the joke and started a debate about Nasa admitting the Moon itself is a hoax.

Oh, and congrats to all for a fantastic mission and my usual shout out to nasaspaceflight for awesome coverage.

[Lewis007]

Post-landing ceremony at Karaganda airport, with only Malenchenko attending.
source: http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2916095

[jacqmans]

June 18, 2016
RELEASE 16-061
Three Space Station Crew Members Return to Earth, Land Safely in Kazakhstan

Three crew members from the International Space Station returned to Earth at 5:15 a.m. EDT (3:15 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Saturday after wrapping up 186 days in space and several NASA research studies in human health.

Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra of NASA, flight engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos touched down southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

The crew completed the in-flight portion of NASA human research studies in ocular health, cognition, salivary markers and microbiome. From the potential development of vaccines, to data that could be relevant in the treatment of patients suffering from ocular diseases, such as glaucoma, the research will help NASA prepare for human long-duration exploration while also benefiting people on Earth.

The three crew members also welcomed four cargo spacecraft, including one that delivered the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), an expandable habitat technology demonstration. The BEAM, which arrived in April on the eighth SpaceX commercial resupply mission, was attached to the space station and expanded to its full size for analysis over the next two years. The BEAM is an example of NASA’s increased commitment to partnering with industry to enable the growth of commercial space, and is co-sponsored by the agency’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division and Bigelow Aerospace.

Two Russian Progress cargo craft docked to the station in December and April, bringing tons of supplies. Kopra and Peake also led the grapple of Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft to the station in March, the company's fourth commercial resupply mission, and the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft in April.

During his time on the orbital complex, Kopra ventured outside for two spacewalks. The objective of the first spacewalk was to move the station’s mobile transporter rail car to a secure position. On the second spacewalk, Kopra and Peake replaced a failed voltage regulator to restore power to one of the station’s eight power channels. Kopra now has 244 days in space on two flights, while Peake spent 186 days in space on this, his first, mission.

Having completed his sixth mission, Malenchenko now has spent 828 cumulative days in space, making him second on the all-time list behind Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka.

Expedition 48 continues on the station, with NASA astronaut Jeff Williams in command, with crewmates Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. The three-person crew will operate the station for three weeks until the arrival of three new crew members.

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to launch July 6 (Eastern time) from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Check out the full NASA TV schedule and video streaming information at:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

Keep up with the International Space Station, and its research and crews, at:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Get breaking news and features from the space station on Twitter at:

https://twitter.com/Space_Station

[jacqmans]

Tim Peake being welcomed back at Cologne’s airport in Germany on 19 June 2016.

Photos: ESA-Philippe Sebirot, 2016. and DLR

[Targeteer]

The "other" non Russian crew member returning home.  After viewing feel free to return to the full time Tim Peake love fest    https://www.facebook.com/ISS/videos/1222325831133679/

Astronaut Tim Kopra greets friends and colleagues upon returning home to Ellington Airport in Houston after 186 days in space.

[ZachS09]

Who is that with Tim Peake after getting off the plane?