NASA: 3 space station astronauts safely return to Earth

NASA: 3 space station astronauts safely return to Earth

Published December 11, 2015
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Expedition 45 crew members Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of
the Russian Federal Space Agency and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency settle into the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft that
carried them safely back to Earth on Dec. 11, 2015 after their 141-day
mission aboard the International Space Station. (NASA)

Expedition 45 crew members Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of
the Russian Federal Space Agency and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency settle into the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft that
carried them safely back to Earth on Dec. 11, 2015 after their 141-day
mission aboard the International Space Station. (NASA)

A three-person crew from the International Space Station landed safely
Friday in the snowy steppes of Kazakhstan, NASA said.

The U.S. space agency's Kjell Lindgren, Russia's Oleg Kononenko and
Kimiya Yui of Japan returned to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-17M capsule
after 141 days in space. They touched down on schedule about 120
kilometers (about 75 kilometers) northeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

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International Space Station

Kononenko reported to the Russian Mission Control that the crew was
feeling fine as the capsule was descending on parachute in thick clouds
before landing softly in darkness in the wind-swept steppes.

Russian rescue teams in four helicopters arrived quickly at the landing
site to help the crew get out of the capsule.

Because of harsh weather conditions, the trio was to be immediately
flown to Dzhezkazgan instead of a usual practice of having the crew to
undergo a quick medical check-up in a tent at the landing site.

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Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA, along with crewmates
Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos remain on the station.
They will be joined by three new crew members next Tuesday. Kelly and
Kornienko are on the first joint U.S.-Russian one-year mission.

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