ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN (AFP) - Two Nasa astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on Friday (April 17) made a safe return from the International Space Station to find the planet transformed by the coronavirus pandemic.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN - Two Nasa astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on Friday made a safe return from the International Space Station to find the planet transformed by the coronavirus pandemic.
"TOUCHDOWN! Welcome home, Oleg Skripochka, Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir!" Russia's Roscosmos space agency wrote on Twitter. Subsequent footage from the landing site showed recovery crews wearing face masks and rubber gloves as they hauled the crew members out of the Soyuz MS-15 capsule, which was lying on its side.While the trio's landing site south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan is the same as for previous crews, the pandemic has forced changes to mission-end protocol.
Watch live as the space travelers are helped out of their vehicle: https://t.co/0A4ev0XgBq pic.twitter.com/4ZkpnJ8OhE End to Russian monopoly While the astronauts' home planet fights the global battle against Covid-19, the ISS is also entering a new era as it prepares to welcome the first crew flown by Mr Elon Musk's SpaceX company as early as next month.
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