Space Station Crew Returns Safely to Earth After 197 Days in Orbit

Space Station Crew Returns Safely to Earth After 197 Days in Orbit

Space Station Crew Returns Safely to Earth After 197 Days in Orbit







Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut launched World Space Week on Thursday (October 4) upon returning home after a six-month stay on the International Space Station.



	

	Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, both from NASA, and Oleg Artemyev from the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos, landed aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft MS-08 in the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan, at 7:44 a.m. EDT (1144 GMT or 5:44 p.m local time of Kazakhstan). The landing coincided with the 61st anniversary of the launch of The world's first satellite, Sputnik, by the former Soviet Union and the beginning of the Space Age.

		The rubber-shaped Soyuz descent module was found on the ground by Russian recovery forces to help Artemyev, Feustel and Arnold exit their capsule and begin their readjustment to gravity. The trio seemed to be in a good mood while breathing fresh air. For the first time in 197 days., with Artemyev even enjoying a large carrot and the aromas of a melon and a large pumpkin.

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		Artemyev, Feustel and Arnold They began their journey back to Earth. about three hours before its landing with the decoupling of Soyuz MS-08 from the Poisk module of the space station at 3:57 a.m. EDT (0757 GMT). His departure marked the official end of Expedition 56, the 56th contingent of the station crew since Expedition 1 acquired residence in November 2000.





						


The Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-08 lands in the steppe of Kazakhstan with cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold on October 4, 2018 after 195 days on the space station. 

            						    Credit: Bill Ingalls / NASA 


		Before departing near the space station, the Soyuz MS-08 team flew around the complex so that Feustel, temporarily relocated to the Soyuz orbital module, could take photographs in preparation for the 20th anniversary of the launch. the first component of the international space station  in November.

		Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, the astronaut of NASA Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA), who He arrived at the station on June 8. and served as members of the Expedition 56 crew under the leadership of Feustal, they are still aboard the outpost in orbit.

		Feustel, who handed over the control to Gerst on Wednesday (October 3), presented his successor with a record of his field of study and time on the International Space Station (ISS).

		"I would like to offer you something to remember the link we both share as geophysicists," Feustel told Gerst during the brief change of command ceremony. "This is an anorthosite phenocrystal Mount Erebus in Antarctica. I know you have many of these and some have flown into space, but surely none of them was given by a geophysicist and a commander of the ISS while in space. "





						


The crewmates of Soyuz MS-08 Drew Feustel, Oleg Artemyev and Ricky Arnold are seen after landing from the International Space Station on October 4, 2018. 

            						    Credit: Bill Ingalls / NASA 


		Feustel also gave Gerst a medallion from Expedition 56 and continued the tradition by passing a symbolic key to the space station, a tool used to open and close the hatch of the Soyuz.

		"Thanks for 1,850 orbits of friendship and great achievements together," said Gerst, addressing Feustel, Arnold and Artemyev. "Together we achieved a lot, we grow plants, we mix concrete, we try anti-cancer drugs"We grow protein crystals, we verify the granules, we measure the Earth's magnetic field, we generate a Bose Einstein condensate, we test alloys of metals and many, many other things."

		"With more than 350 experiments accredited to the expedition, we should all be proud of our achievements together," Feustel said.

		In addition to their scientific research, the crew members of Expedition 55/56 carried out four extravehicular activities (EVA). Feustel and Arnold left the station three times together in March, May and June to set up the communications equipment, relocate a damaged pumping unit and continue preparations for the future arrival of the US commercial crew ship. UU His first outing marked the 100th spacewalk by crew members Living on board the ISS.

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		In August, Artemyev and Prokopyev conducted an EVA to deploy four small satellites, reconfigure the antennas in the Zvezda service module and retrieve and install experiments.

		Within the space station, Feustel played the first tennis game in space as part of a publicity project with the US Tennis Association. UU He recorded a music video with the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.. Arnold, a former middle school math and science teacher, continued and concluded the Year of Education at NASA Station, including the record of lessons that the Master in space Christa McAuliffe had planned to carry out aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.





						


The Soyuz MS-08 is decoupled from the Poisk module of the International Space Station to return to Earth after 197 days in orbit on October 4, 2018. 

            						    Credit: NASA TV 


		This was the second space flight of Artemyev and Arnold and the third of Feustel. Artemyev has logged 366 days in space, Arnold has spent 210 days off Earth and Feustel has accumulated 226 days living and working in orbit.

		Now on Earth, the three companions of the Soyuz MS-08 will return to their respective space agencies after a brief helicopter flight to the Kazakh city of Karaganda for a traditional welcome ceremony. From there, Artemyev will depart for Star City, outside Moscow, while Feustel and Arnold will return on a NASA plane to the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

		Two other members of the Expedition 57 crew, Aleksey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, are scheduled to launch into the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-10 on October 11.

		Soyuz MS-08 was the 54th Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly to the International Space Station. He traveled a total of 83.4 million miles (134 million kilometers) in the course of 3,152 orbits of the Earth.

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