The manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-12M” with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronaut Steven Swanson onboard undocked from the International Space Station and headed for Earth.
Almost three and a half hours, at 06:25 MSK, lander “Union” should land in the Kazakh steppe.
“Flight” Soyuz TMA-12M “, which undocked from the ISS today at 03:00 MSK, runs in normal mode. Feels Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and Steven Swanson normal” – quoted by ITAR-TASS Mission Control Center (MCC).
The station will continue to work: Russian Maxim Surayev, who became commander of the ISS instead of Swanson, American and European Uaysmen Reed Alexander Gerst.
Automation for more than three hours will lead “the Soyuz TMA-12M” to the planned landing site, 148 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan.
Approximately at 05:30 MSK, at an altitude of about 350 km, the engines of the ship will turn on braking. As a result, he will come down from orbit, at 06:01 MSK enter the dense layers of the atmosphere and begin a guided descent to Earth. Parachute descent capsule will be revealed at an altitude of about 11 km.
“Soyuz TMA-12M” was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on March 26 at 1:17 MSK, and two days later docked to the ISS, although docking planned on the same day. Postpone docking required due to the fact that the spacecraft failed to fulfill one of the maneuvers on the formation of the orbit. Because of the variance in the orientation of the spacecraft did not happen a third for an engine to generate the desired orbit, recalls “Interfax” .
During the semi-annual expedition crew had to dodge a fragment of the European launcher Ariane-5, take the Russian cargo ship “Progress” and the European ATV-5, eliminate smoke in the module “Zvezda”, make two outs in the open space.
The next expedition will arrive at the ISS, as expected, September 26. Go into orbit, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyayev and Elena Serova , American astronaut Barry Wilmore.
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