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Three members of the 57th Exit from the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth on Thursday, after a 197-day mission in the orbital complex, after go through an impressive period due to oxygen leakage and the failure of a rocket launch that had to transport a new crew.
The shipping ship & Germany Alexander Gerst, from the European Space Agency (ESA), to America Serena Auñón-Chancellor, by NASA and to the use Sergey Prokopiev, from Roscosmos, has landed just earlier than planned outside the city of Zhezkazgan, in Kazakhstan, at 8:02 in Moscow.
The first important event was held on August 30, when it was discovered oxygen leak due to a very small hole in his Soyuz ship to connect to the ISS. The hole I've been successfully repaired, but Russia opened an inquiry Dimitri Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, referred to the assumption or sabotage to a possible "act premeditated" on Earth or in space. Rogozin later said that the researchers refused to track manufacturing failure.
The return to Earth Sergei Prokopiev, Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst had originally scheduled for December 13, but had to be postponed after the failure of Soyuz's rocket launch on October 11 and the incredible return to Land his two holders, the American Nick Hague to Russian Alexéi Ovchinin. This was the first to release the post-Soviet era.
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