by yaska77
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft which undocked from the ISS yesterday landed safely in a remote area southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan (on Tuesday, 24 May, 2011), with Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev, and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli and Cady Coleman onboard.
After a textbook landing that saw the capsule remain upright, Commander Kondratyev was the first to emerge, followed closely by Coleman and Nespoli. They were seated in reclining chairs to allow them some time to acclimatise to gravity again, before being carried to nearby medical tents for examinations.
L-R : Catherine "Cady" Coleman, Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli - Credit: Roskosmos
NASA Astronaut Coleman, Russian Cosmonaut Kondratyev and ESA Astronaut Nespoli have returned home after more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 26 and 27 crews.
NASA are hoping to release some of the first images captured by Nespoli during the historic photo shoot later today (watch this space for details!)
Filed under: ESA, NASA, yaska77 Tagged: Agency, Cady Coleman, digital, Dmitry Kondratyev, Endevour, Expedition 27, Federal, HD Video, high-res, historic, imaging, ISS, Kazakhstan, landing, NASA, paolo nespoli, photoshoot, postaweek2011, returned, russian, safely, soyuz, space, stills, textbook, TMA-20
