MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian area capsule carrying two girls and a person landed safely on a steppe in Kazakhstan on Saturday after its mission aboard the Worldwide Area Station.
The Soyuz MS-24 carrying Russia Oleg NovitskyLoral O'Hara of NASA and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus touched down southeast of the distant city of Dzhezkazgan at 12:17 pm Kazakh time (0717 GMT).
These remaining on the orbiting advance are NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson and Jeannette Epps, in addition to Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Chub. Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenko.
O'Hara arrived on the Worldwide Area Station on September 15, 2023, spending a complete of 204 days, NASA mentioned.
Novitsky and Vasilevskaya left for area on March 23, two days after the deliberate begin. The launch of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying them and Dyson, scheduled for March 21, was aborted on the final minute because of a voltage drop in an influence supply, based on Yury Borisov, head of the Russian area company Roscosmos.
The delay resulted in a two-day, 34-orbit journey to the area station for the crew. If the launch had gone as deliberate, the journey would have been a lot shorter, requiring solely two orbits.
The area station, which served as a logo of post-Chilly Struggle worldwide cooperation, is now one of many final remaining areas of cooperation between Russia and the West amid tensions over the transfer navy of Moscow in Ukraine. NASA and its companions hope to proceed working the orbiter till the 2030s.
Russia continued to depend on modified variations of Soviet-designed rockets for industrial satellites, in addition to crew and cargo to the area station.
