ISS order transfer to Samantha Cristoforetti by Oleg Artemyev who offers her a tube of tomato juice!
On Thursday, September 29, 2022, at 1:57 p.m. Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft descent vehicle (SP Korolyov) with the crew of the 67th long-term expedition to the International Space Station landed in the region of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.
Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev et Sergei KorsakovRoscosmos cosmonauts , returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft after spending 195 days at the station since March 2022. Since all three graduated from Moscow State Technical University named after NE Bauman, the he crew was called “Bauman”.
The Soyuz MS-21 separated from the Prichal nodal module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station on September 29, 2022 at 10:34 a.m. Moscow time. The deorbiting of the spacecraft and its descent to Earth took place in normal mode.
Oleg Artemyev to mark environ 561 days in total for three spaceflights and about 54 hours total for eight spacewalks. For Denis Matveyev and Sergei Korsakov, it was the first space flight. Denis Matveyev has logged more than 26 hours in total for four spacewalks.
During the 67th long-term expedition to the ISS, scientific and applied experiments were conducted, the Progress MS-20 cargo ship was received, five spacewalks were carried out under the Russian program to prepare the European ERA remote manipulator for operation outside the Naouka, a special-purpose laboratory module, and the station’s orbit corrections were performed six times by the Progress MS-20 engines.
The “Soyuz MS-21” spacecraft is named “SP Korolyov” in honor of Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov, chief designer of rocket and space technology, under whose leadership the Soyuz family of manned spacecraft was founded, which since 1966 has performed 172 vols.
The crew of the 68th long-duration expedition, consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Peteline, NASA astronauts Chell Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins and Francisco Rubio, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, continues to fly to the ISS.
Photo source and credits: Roscosmos
Separation of Soyuz MS-21 from the Prichal module of the ISS.
Soyuz MS-21 (its descent module) under the parachute, seen from the ISS control room at TsOUP in Korolyov.
Oleg Artemyev after his extraction from the soyuz capsule.
The three “Bauman” once extracted from the Soyuz.