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Observer
20-04-2025
- Science
- Observer
NASA's oldest astronaut returns
WASHINGTON: A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of Pettit's milestone birthday. "Today at 0420 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan," Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. Spending 220 days in space, Pettit and his crewmates Ovchinin and Vagner orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a journey of 93.3 million miles over the course of their mission. NASA images of the landing showed the small capsule parachuting down to Earth with the sunrise as a backdrop. The astronauts gave thumbs-up gestures as rescuers carried them from the spacecraft to an inflatable medical tent. Despite looking a little worse for wear as he was pulled from the vessel, Pettit was "doing well and in the range of what is expected for him following return to Earth," NASA said in a statement. — AFP
Al Arabiya
20-04-2025
- Science
- Al Arabiya
Soyuz spacecraft lands with two Russians, American aboard
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians from the International Space Station (ISS) landed back on Earth Sunday on the steppe of Kazakhstan, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said. 'Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan,' the space agency said. The Russian cosmonauts Ovchinin and Vagner and NASA astronaut Pettit had spent 220 days in space after travelling to the ISS in September last year. They coincided on the ISS until March with a pair of US astronauts who came for eight days and ended up stranded for more than nine months after the spacecraft they travelled on was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth. Space is one of the final areas of US-Russia cooperation amid an almost complete breakdown in relations between Moscow and Washington over the Ukraine conflict.
Al Etihad
20-04-2025
- Science
- Al Etihad
Soyuz MS-26 space capsule lands with two Russians, American aboard
20 Apr 2025 12:47 MOSCOW (AFP)A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians from the International Space Station (ISS) landed back on Earth Sunday on the steppe of Kazakhstan, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said."Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan," the space agency Russian cosmonauts Ovchinin and Vagner and NASA astronaut Pettit had spent 220 days in space after travelling to the ISS in September last year. They coincided on the ISS until March with a pair of US astronauts who came for eight days and ended up stranded for more than nine months after the spacecraft they travelled on was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth.
Iraqi News
13-04-2025
- Science
- Iraqi News
NASA pays tribute to Gagarin in honor of Cosmonautics Day
INA-sources The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States (NASA) paid tribute to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in honor of Cosmonautics Day. The corresponding message was posted on April 12 on the organization's page on the social network X (ex. Twitter). "On this International Day of Human Spaceflight, we celebrate the first flight of mankind into space, which was made by Yuri Gagarin in 1961, as well as the first launch of the space shuttle (an American reusable transport spacecraft. — Ed.) in 1981," writes NASA. The Russian crew of the International Space Station (ISS), consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Wagner and Kirill Peskov, congratulated Russian citizens on Cosmonautics Day on April 12.
