“Soyuz” with the crew successfully landed in Kazakhstan – RIA Novosti

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Korolev (Moscow region), September 12 – RIA Novosti. Get down capsule “Soyuz TMA-16M” with a new space record Gennady Padalka (Roscosmos), the first cosmonaut of independent Kazakhstan Aydin Aimbetova, as well as the first astronaut Denmark Andreas Mogensen landed in Kazakhstan in the area close to the calculated, RIA Novosti learned from the Mission Control Center ( MCC).

“There is a landing! lander landed 146 kilometers south-east of the city of Zhezkazgan Karaganda region of Kazakhstan,” – the source said.

In the search and rescue support landing “Union” was attended by about 200 troops, 14 helicopters Mi-8 with the special equipment on board, four AN-12 and AN-26 and 15 units of vehicles, including four search and recovery vehicle terrain.

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka March 27 went to the ISS in his fifth space flight, having a total combined raid in 710 days. On the night of June 29, Moscow time Padalka broke the world record set before the ex-head of the Cosmonaut Training Center Sergei Krikalev, who for six space missions – to the Soviet station “Mir” and further to the ISS – has worked 803 days, 9 hours and 41 minutes . Thus, total plaque at the time of landing Padalka is 877 days.

On board the ISS were Russians Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko Mikhail Kornienko and American astronaut Scott Kelly Chell Lindgren and Japanese Yui Kimia. In mid-December they will be joined Yuri Malenchenko (Roscosmos), Timothy Kopra (NASA) and Timothy Peak (ESA).