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Soyuz TMA Crew to Return to Earth Tomorrow
Tuesday, 13 May 2014 12:44
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Soyuz TMA Crew to Return to Earth Tomorrow

MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti) – Three crew members from the International Space Station are due to return to Earth on Wednesday morning after 188 days in space, a spokesperson for Russia’s Mission Control Center told RIA Novosti Tuesday.

“Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and US astronaut Rick Mastacchio will come back aboard a re-entry capsule of the manned Soyuz TMA-11M spaceship,” the spokesperson said.

The Soyuz spacecraft will undock from the ISS early on Wednesday, at 2:35 a.m. Moscow time, before reentering the atmosphere at 5:36 a.m., with the parachute deploying eight minutes later.

The capsule is expected to touch down 148 km southeast of Kazakhstan’s Jezkazgan.

The Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying a three-man crew and a symbolic torch for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games docked with the International Space Station on November 7, 2013.

The Rossiya 24 TV channel showed the smiling nine-member crew passing around the unlit Olympic torch in a live broadcast from the ISS.

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 http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140513/189791066/Soyuz-TMA-Crew-to-Return-to-Earth-Tomorrow.html

 

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