"Union" with three crew members landed in Kazakhstan - BBC Russian

Thomas Mashburn, Roman Romananko and Chris Hadfield before the flight to the ISS

Three members of the crew of the International Space Station returned to Earth on the descent vehicle “Soyuz TMA-07M.” Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, NASA astronaut Thomas Mashburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko landed safely in Kazakhstan.

“The crew normally transferred descent and landing, the astronauts good mood”, – reported in the Mission Control Center.

past weekend Mashburn and his colleague Chris Cassidy, an American astronaut who made a spacewalk to eliminate ammonia leak from the cooling system of one of the two channels of power through which the station receives the energy from the solar panels.

without repair, conducted by U.S. astronauts, would probably have to reduce the time of carrying out scientific experiments on the ISS in order to save energy.

engineers to arrive at the ISS with three other members of the crew of the station on May 28, will conduct inspection of the cooling system.

“Union” landed about 150 km south-east of the city of Zhezkazgan at 6:31 am Moscow time. Now the station is three people.

Hadfield, who became the first Canadian astronaut who visited the ISS, said that the work on the station was an amazing experience for him. Hadfield in his microblog site Twitter, which is signed by hundreds of thousands of people during the five-month stay on the ISS talked about the work station and published photographs.

On Monday, he posted a video in space, on a song by David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”. This clip at youtube.com already seen nearly 4 million people, and David Bowie welcomed the new version of the song.