Astronauts return to Earth after about 6 months


Left three astronauts from the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Sunday after a journey that lasted five and a half months.

He is scheduled to touch down in the vehicle state frigid steppes of Kazakhstan at 0358 GMT Monday.

Said astronaut Aviation Administration and Space Administration "NASA" Reid Wiseman, during the handover ceremony Saturday broadcast on NASA television station: "It is an honor for me to spend 165 days here .. I look forward to return home."

And associated Wiseman on the return trip to the land of the station commander ended a Soraev Maxime, a Russian space agency, and German flight engineer Alexander Gerst, from the European Space Agency.



The three astronauts set off together on their journey to space on board the vehicle itself in the twenty-eighth of last May.

ISS remained 3 astronauts, including the new commander Barry Wilmore from NASA, and Russians Alexander Samokotaev and Serova us.

Space Station, which orbits the earth away from about 418 kilometers, a research lab amounted to $ 100 billion cost and is owned and operated by the 15-nation




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