Załoga ISS już na Ziemi 17.04. o 05:16:43 (plan) w Kazachstanie wylądował aparat powrotny statku kosmicznego
Sojuz MS-15.
Koniec misji Sojuz MS-15 BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 17 KWIETNIA 2020
Załoga powracająca na pokładzie Sojuza MS-15 w dniu 17.04.2020 / Credits - NASA TVSiedemnastego kwietnia zakończyła się misja rosyjskiej kapsuły Sojuz MS-15. Na Ziemię powróciło troję kosmonautów.
Start Sojuza MS-15 nastąpił 25 września 2019 roku o godzinie 15:57 CEST. Start odbył się z kosmodromu Bajkonur za pomocą rakiety Sojuz-FG. Na pokładzie kapsuły Sojuz MS-15 znalazło się troje kosmonautów: Oleg Skripoczka (Rosja / Roskosmos, 3 lot kosmiczny), Jessica Meir (USA / NASA, 1 lot kosmiczny), Hazza al-Mansouri (Zjednoczone Emiraty Arabskie, 1 lot kosmiczny).
Sześć godzin po starcie Sojuz dotarł do Międzynarodowej Stacji Kosmicznej (ISS). Hazza al-Mansouri
powrócił na Ziemię 3 października 2019 na pokładzie Sojuza MS-12. Pozostali uczestnicy misji Sojuz MS-15 weszli w skład Ekspedycji 61 oraz Ekspedycji 62 na ISS.
Pomiędzy październikiem 2019 a styczniem 2020 z pokładu ISS wykonano serię spacerów kosmicznych, w których wzięła udział Jessica Meir. Ona, wraz z Christiną Koch, wykonały trzy spacery kosmiczne (EVA-58 w październiku 2019, EVA-62 w styczniu 2020 oraz EVA-63 w styczniu 2020). Były to trzy pierwsze spacery kosmiczne wykonane wyłącznie przez kobiety.
Uczestniczki spaceru EVA-63 / Credits – NASAW nocy z 16 na 17 kwietnia 2020 zakończyła się misja Sojuza MS-15. Na Ziemię powrócili Oleg Skripoczka, Jessica Meir oraz Andrew Morgan (który dotarł na ISS
na pokładzie Sojuza MS-13). Dla Skripoczki i Meir pobyt na orbicie trwał 205 dni, zaś dla Morgana – 272 dni. Lądowanie na stepach Kazachstanu nastąpiło 17 kwietnia około godziny 07:16 CEST.
Odłączenie Sojuza MS-15 od ISS / Credits – NASA TV
Na pokładzie ISS pozostało trzech kosmonautów: Anatolij Iwaniszyn, Iwan Wagner oraz Christopher Cassidy. Prawdopodobnie pod koniec maja lub na początku czerwca odwiedzą ich astronauci na pokładzie amerykańskiego pojazdu Dragon 2. Będzie to pierwszy test załogowy nowej generacji pojazdu załogowego.
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https://kosmonauta.net/2020/04/koniec-misji-sojuz-ms-15/#prettyPhotoEVA-58
https://kosmonauta.net/2019/10/spacer-eva-58/EVA-62
https://kosmonauta.net/2020/01/spacer-kosmiczny-eva-62/EVA-63
https://kosmonauta.net/2020/01/spacer-kosmiczny-eva-63/Экипаж ТПК «Союз МС-15» приземлился в Казахстане17 апреля 2020
17 апреля 2020 года в 8:16 мск спускаемый аппарат транспортного пилотируемого корабля «Союз МС-15» совершил штатную посадку в казахстанской степи. На Землю вернулись космонавт Роскосмоса Олег Скрипочка, астронавты НАСА Эндрю Морган и Джессика Меир.
http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=4956Soyuz MS-15 lands safely with US, Russian crew from space station
Soyuz MS-15 lands on the steppe of Kazakhstan from the International Space Station with cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir on Friday, April 17, 2020. (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)(...) Long-duration spaceflights are known to weaken astronauts' immune systems, so precautions were taken to limit the crew's exposure to the novel coronavirus currently affecting millions worldwide. The NASA and Roscosmos staff tending to the astronauts wore face masks and the other workers at the site appeared to be following social distancing practices.
"Our landing date corresponds with the landing day of Apollo 13 and now, once again, there is a crisis, [but] the crisis is on Earth," Morgan told reporters a week before coming home, referencing the 1970 problem-plagued moon mission and the current pandemic. (...)
NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan (left) and Jessica Meir (center) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka rest in chairs after landing aboard Soyuz MS-15 from the International Space Station on the Kazakh steppe on April 17, 2020. (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
Soyuz MS-15 landed on its side on the steppe of Kazakhstan after returning from the International Space Station. (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)(...)
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-041720a-soyuz-ms15-landing.htmlSoyuz with crew of three lands safely in KazakhstanApril 17, 2020 William Harwood
A Russian cosmonaut and his two NASA crewmates undocked from the International Space Station and landed in Kazakhstan early Friday, returning to an unfamiliar world in the grip of a pandemic that will force them to extend the social isolation they were hoping to end.
“It’s a little bit surreal to think that we’re going back, especially given the situation that’s been unfolding on the ground,” flight engineer Jessica Meir told a reporter Wednesday. “It looks like we are going back to a completely different planet. So it will be certainly an interesting experience for us.”
Starting with the trip back to the United States for Meir and crewmate Drew Morgan.
Because of coronavirus travel restrictions and safety protocols, the astronauts faced long helicopter rides back to their Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site and then a three-hour overland trip to reach a NASA jet standing by at the nearest approved landing site to carry them home to Houston.
“It’s going to be kind of like a ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ scenario where I think we’re going to even end up riding in an ambulance for several hours across the Kazakh steppe in order to get to our airplane,” Meir said. “But this is the first time landing for (us), so we don’t really have anything to compare it to. It’ll just be the way that it is for us.”
Oleg Skripochka, commander of the Soyuz MS-15/61 spacecraft that carried the trio back to Earth, faced a somewhat easier journey. He planned to catch a Russian jet at the cosmodrome for the flight back to his home in Star City near Moscow.
The long trip back to Earth began at 9:53 p.m. EDT Thursday when Skripochka, Meir and Morgan undocked from the aft port of the station’s Russian Zvezda module, leaving NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner behind aboard the lab complex.
Skripochka and Meir launched together last Sept. 25 along with a United Arab Emirates guest cosmonaut who returned to Earth eight days later. Morgan, who flew to the lab with a different crew last July 20, is taking the guest cosmonaut’s seat for the trip home.
After undocking and moving a safe distance away, Skripochka monitored an automated four-minute 41-second rocket firing, slowing the ship by about 286 mph and dropping the far side of its orbit deep into the atmosphere. That set up a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan at 1:16 am Friday (11:16 am local time).
They were met by a smaller-than-usual Russian recovery crew that deployed from Baikonur aboard just eight helicopters instead of the usual 12. The team had to use Baikonur, some 250 miles away, as a staging base because of Kazakh travel restrictions.
The reduced recovery team did not include the usual complement of personnel and equipment and the Soyuz descent, normally carried live on NASA’s satellite television channel, went unseen.
But low-bandwidth television routed through Moscow later showed the crew relaxing comfortably in recliners near the descent module, smiling and chatting with support crews while flight surgeons carried out brief medical checks.
With touchdown, Morgan had logged 272 days in space during his first flight. participating in seven spacewalks over the course of an extended mission. Skripochka and Meir, who participated in three all-female spacewalks, logged 205 days aboard the orbital outpost.
All three were to be flown separately by helicopter to Baikonur where they planned to split up, with Skripochka heading for Moscow while Meir and Morgan, escorted by NASA flight surgeons, headed overland to the town of Kyzlorda and the waiting NASA jet.
Once back in Houston, Meir and Morgan will spend their first week in an extended quarantine, using crew quarters at the Johnson Space Center, as a safety precaution. That’s because astronauts returning to Earth after long-duration space flights can exhibit slightly depressed immune systems. Given the coronavirus, that’s an added risk for the returning station fliers.
“So we’ll have a more strict quarantine this time where we’ll be actually staying and living at NASA for at least a week after we land with very limited access to make sure that that we remain healthy,” Meir said.
She described the post-landing protocols as ironic given she and Morgan spent the past six months and more in extreme isolation 250 miles above Earth. Since Oct. 3, only six people have been aboard the station.
“That is the irony,” Meir said of the extended quarantine. “I think it’s actually going to feel more confined and more isolating to do that on Earth than it is up here because that’s something that we expect and train for. We have so many extraordinary things happening around us at all times up here, we don’t really feel like that isolation and confinement is an issue.
“But on the ground, when you’re not used to expecting that and when your daily life consists of going out and doing all these things, I think it’s going to feel a lot more isolating down there than up here.”
Cassidy, Ivanishin and Vagner were launched April 9 from Baikonur amid strict coronavirus protocols to minimize the chances of the COVID-19 virus getting on board the space station.
“This mission, it does feel different, I will tell you, leaving Earth amidst the global crisis and the shutdown, worldwide quarantine,” Cassidy said last week during a news conference with Meir and Morgan. We knew as a crew we were going to be in quarantine … but we didn’t know the whole rest of the world was going to join us.”
With the departure of Meir and Morgan, Cassidy will be the only U.S. crew member aboard the station until SpaceX launches its Crew Dragon spacecraft on its first piloted mission around May 27. (...)https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/17/soyuz-with-crew-of-three-lands-safely-in-kazakhstan/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/04/expedition-62-trio-return-earth/https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3876.msg144002#msg144002EDIT 20.02.23
https://twitter.com/Astro_Jessica/status/1623827565872918532
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