Trio astronauts after spending 166 days in space returned to Earth from the International Space Station Tuesday, landed in their Russian Soyuz capsule onto the north-central Kazakhstan.NASA astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa of Japan's JAXA space agency, returned to earth at 8:25 a.m. Kazakh time (0225 GMT).
The crews of Soyuz TMA-02M and Soyuz TMA-22 were originally scheduled to fly in space together for around two months, however since the launch of Soyuz TMA-22 was delayed from late September to 14th November due to August’s Progress M-12M launch failure, the short handover period became necessary.
It was not possible to delay the landing of Soyuz TMA-22 past the 22nd due to adverse weather and lighting conditions at the Kazakhstan landing site. Therefore, in order to aid in the handover, the crew of Soyuz TMA-02M have made a series of videos explaining the current status of the ISS to the Soyuz TMA-22 crew.http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/11/soyuz-tma-02m-spacecraft-earth-three-crewmembers/
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The crews of Soyuz TMA-02M and Soyuz TMA-22 were originally scheduled to fly in space together for around two months, however since the launch of Soyuz TMA-22 was delayed from late September to 14th November due to August’s Progress M-12M launch failure, the short handover period became necessary.
It was not possible to delay the landing of Soyuz TMA-22 past the 22nd due to adverse weather and lighting conditions at the Kazakhstan landing site. Therefore, in order to aid in the handover, the crew of Soyuz TMA-02M have made a series of videos explaining the current status of the ISS to the Soyuz TMA-22 crew.http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/11/soyuz-tma-02m-spacecraft-earth-three-crewmembers/
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