Friday, December 11, 2015

ISS trio lands safe & sound in Kazakhstan, 1st return from space after sunset

The Soyuz TMA-17m space capsule carrying three ISS crewmembers has returned from its mission and landed safely in Kazakhstan. It is the first time a crew has landed after sunset.
The trio, flight engineers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, have been in orbit for nearly five months.

INC News, 11/12/2015 - via RT

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