Returning ISS crew evacuated from Soyuz MS-16 reentry vehicle.
MOSCOW, October 22.
/TASS/. The Soyuz MS-16 spaceship’s reentry vehicle with Roscosmos cosmonauts
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy has landed
in the steppe southeast of the city of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.
Broadcasting was
available at the website of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos.
Ivanishin, Vagner and
Cassidy are out of the Soyuz MS-16 spaceship’s reentry vehicle which landed
early in Kazakhstan’s steppe. Ivanishin was the first to be evacuated from the
capsule.
"Cosmonauts
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy feel
well," Roscosmos said on its Twitter account.
The spaceship
undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 02:32 Moscow time on
Thursday.
The ISS current crew
are Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and US
astronaut Kathleen Rubins.
A spokesman for the
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center told TASS that because of the coronavirus
situation Ivanishin and Vagner will be able to see only those of their family
members who are not in a risk group and are coronavirus-negative. They will be
able to see children under 12 and parents older than 65 "after a period of
rehabilitation of five to seven days," the spokesman added.
While on a space
mission, Ivanishin and Vagner conducted scientific experiments and took part in
efforts to trace an air leak aboard the orbital outpost from August. On October
15, Ivanishin reported to Earth that a probable air leak location had been
traced in the inter-section compartment of the Russian Zvezda module thanks to
a tea bag. The leak might have been cause by a crack, which was temporarily
sealed. The leak will be completely fixed when the Soyuz MS-16 lands, a source
in the space industry told TASS.
Source: ITAR-TASS
24-10-2020
