Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., la Agencia Espacial NASA, nos informa del retorno a La Tierra desde la Estación Espacial Internacional de los astronautas:Astronaut Barry Wilmore,Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev,Flight Engineer Elena Serova, que conformaron la Expedición 42, y lo hicieron a bordo de la Nave : The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft; ellos permanecieron 167 días en el espacio.
Expedition 42 Returns to Earth
The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft is seen as it lands with International Space
Station Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA, Alexander Samokutyaev of
the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos near
the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. The landing took place on the evening of
Wednesday, March 11 in the U.S, and early in the morning on Thursday, March 12,
in Kazakhstan.
The three crew members returned to Earth after a 167-day mission on the
orbital outpost that included hundreds of scientific experiments and several
spacewalks to prepare the orbiting laboratory for future arrivals by U.S.
commercial crew spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/Bill
Ingall
Expedition 42 Soyuz Landing
The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 42 commander
Barry Wilmore of NASA, Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency
(Roscosmos) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos near the town of Dzhezkazgan,
Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 (Thursday, March 12, Kazakh time). NASA
astronaut Wilmore, Russian cosmonauts Samokutyaev and Serova returned to Earth
after almost six months onboard the International Space Station where they
served as members of the Expedition 41 and 42 crews. The spacecraft touched
down safely at approximately 10:07 p.m. EDT.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill
Ingalls
Space Station Crew Returns to Earth, Lands Safely in
Kazakhstan
ЕСТЬ ПОСАДКА! They have landed! This message was
posted to the center screen of the Russian Federal Space Agency's Mission
Control Center in Korolev, Russia, the moment confirmation was received that the
Soyuz carrying three crew members of the International Space Station's
Expedition 42 had landed on time and target in Kazakhstan.
Image Credit:
NASA
Three crew members returned to Earth Wednesday after a 167-day mission on the
International Space Station (ISS) that included hundreds of scientific
experiments and several spacewalks to prepare the orbiting laboratory for future
arrivals by U.S. commercial crew spacecraft.
Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA and flight engineers Alexander
Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)
touched down at approximately 10:07 p.m. EDT (8:07 a.m. March 12, Kazakh time)
southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.
Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA makes
his way out of the Soyuz spacecraft following the crew's 167-day mission aboard
the space station.
Image Credit:
NASA
During their time on station, the crew members participated in a variety of
research focusing on the effects of microgravity on cells, Earth observation,
physical science and biological and molecular science. One of several key
research focus areas during Expedition 42 was human health management for
long-duration space travel, as NASA and Roscosmos prepare for two crew members
to spend one year aboard the space station.
Her first mission to the space station, Expedition
42 flight engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency is assisted
in her exit from the Soyuz that returned her and her team members from the
ISS.
Image Credit:
NASA
The space station also serves as a test bed to demonstrate new technology.
The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) arrived and was installed during
Expedition 42, and already is providing data to improve scientists’
understanding of the structure and evolution of Earth's atmosphere. This may
lead to enhancements to spacecraft launches, landings and communications
systems; help guide future atmospheric investigations of Mars, Jupiter or other
worlds; and help researchers model and predict climate changes on Earth.
With the end of this mission, flight engineer
Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency now has accrued 331
days in space.
Image Credit:
NASA
The newly installed Electromagnetic Levitator will allow scientists to
observe fundamental physical processes as liquid metals cool, potentially
leading to lighter, higher-performing alloy, mixtures of two or more metals or a
metal and another material, for use on Earth and in space.
The station crew also welcomed three cargo spacecraft with several tons of
scientific investigations, food, fuel and other supplies. In January, the trio
helped grapple and connect a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the company's fifth
contracted commercial resupply mission to the station. The Dragon returned to
Earth in February with critical science samples. Two Russian ISS Progress cargo
craft docked to the station in October and February. The fifth and final
European Automated Transfer Vehicle, bearing the name of Belgian physicist
Georges Lemaître, considered the father of the big-bang theory, departed the
station in February.
During his time on the orbital complex, Wilmore ventured outside the space
station with NASA astronaut Terry Virts on three spacewalks to prepare for new
international docking adapters and future U.S. commercial crew spacecraft.
Wilmore also completed a spacewalk in October with fellow NASA astronaut Reid
Wiseman to replace a failed voltage regulator. Samokutyaev conducted one
spacewalk during his time in space.
Having completed his second space station mission, Samokutyaev now has spent
331 days in space. Wilmore, having previously flown as a shuttle pilot on
STS-129, has spent 178 days in space. Serova spent 167 days in space on her
first flight.
Expedition 43 currently is operating the station, with Virts in command.
Flight engineers Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA
(European Space Agency), are continuing station research and operations until
three new crewmates arrive in two weeks. NASA’s Scott Kelly and Roscosmos’
Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka are scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan
March 27, Eastern time. Kelly and Kornienko will embark on the first joint
U.S.-Russian one-year mission, an important stepping stone on NASA’s journey to
Mars.
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