Dva ruska i astronaut NASA-e su se vratili danas na Zemlju nakon polugodišnje misije na Međunarodnoj svemirskoj stanici.
Rusi Sergey Ryzhikov i Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, te Amerikanka Kate Rubins sletjeli su u stepu u Kazahstanu na oko 150 kilometara od grada Žežkazganu.
👩🚀 Astronaut Kate Rubins is all "high fives and smiles" as she takes her first breath of fresh Earth air in 185 days. Aboard the @Space_Station, Rubins conducted hundreds of hours of @ISS_Research, including advancing her work in DNA sequencing. pic.twitter.com/dAAq7Yx3WT
— NASA (@NASA) April 17, 2021
Rubinsova i Ryzhikov su bili na drugoj misiji u svemiru, dok je Kud-Sverchkov bio na prvom zadatku.
Welcome home! At 12:55am ET (4:55 UT), after 185 days in space, Kate Rubins of @NASA_Astronauts and Sergey Ryzhikov & Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of @Roscosmos touched down in their Soyuz spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan. pic.twitter.com/cOVT9M9Tmf
— NASA (@NASA) April 17, 2021
Na snimcima koji su objavljeni i na Twitteru vidi se Rubinsova kako se osmjehuje dok izlazi iz kapsule u kojoj se spustila na Zemlju.