International crew worked in orbit for about 170 days
The lander manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-14M” with two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on Thursday landed in the Kazakh steppe the estimated time. About this correspondent. Tass reported in Moscow Mission Control Center (MCC).
«The capsule landed in the planned landing area, about 146 km south-east of the town of Zhezkazgan,” – said the MCC.
Aircraft Rescue Service caught signal VHF transmitter lander and led him to the landing site.
Experts search and rescue teams made it to the office and had to evacuate returned to Earth ISS. “The crew feels good,” – added in the center. Alexander Samokutyaeva first evacuated, then Barry Wilmore and Elena Serov.
Members of the expedition worked in orbit for about 170 days.
The station remained Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and American Terry Vёrts who became commander of the ISS instead Willmore.
The crew of a new expedition will travel to the ISS on board the “Soyuz TMA-16M” from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 27. It consists of Roscosmos cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.
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