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A Russian space capsule separated from the International Space Station (ISS) to bring three astronauts back to Earth. Two of them completed a record-long stay on the orbiting space lab. The capsule is expected to land in Kazakhstan about three and a half hours after separating from the ISS.
MOSCOW: A Russian space capsule separated from the International Space Station (ISS) carrying three astronauts back to Earth, two of whom completed a record-long stay on the orbiting space lab. The capsule, with Russians Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and US citizen Tracy Dyson, is expected to land in Kazakhstan about three-and-a-half hours after it separates from the ISS. Kononenko and Chub depart for the space station on September 15, 2023, and on Friday set a record for the longest continuous stay on the ISS.
Dyson, in her third mission to outer space, spent six months in space. There are eight astronauts left on the space station, including American citizens Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams. Wilmore and Williams were supposed to return to Earth earlier but some technical glitches are delaying their return. They arrived in June as the first crew of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule. But their return journey was disrupted due to thruster problems and helium leaks. US space agency NASA had said that it would be too risky to bring them back by Starliner’s spacecraft. Both astronauts are likely to return to Earth by SpaceX’s spacecraft next year.
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