Three astronauts who completed the long trip to the ISS, flying to the Earth. At 06.30 MSK, the lander spacecraft “Soyuz” is about to land in the Kazakh steppe.
«Flight of the” Soyuz TMA-07M “, which undocked from the ISS at 03.08 MSK, runs normally, being Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield and Thomas Mashburn normal”, – told the ITAR-TASS in the Moscow Mission Control Center.
«Russians Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and Christopher Cassidy, who took the watch on the orbiting ISS, will wait for the moment when the lander” Union “will land in Kazakhstan”, – the MCC.
Automation for more than three hours to conduct a “Soyuz TMA-07M” to the planned landing site is about 146 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan. Approximately 50 minutes before landing at 05.37 at an altitude of about 350 km the engine “Union” will work on braking. As a result, he will come out of orbit and begin a guided descent to Earth. Parachute descent capsule will be revealed at an altitude of about 11 km. Landing is scheduled for 06.30 MSK.
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