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Space Station Crew parachutes to safe Night Landing in snow-covered Kazakh Steppe

December 11, 2015January 28, 2017 Patrick Blau 3538 Views ISS December 2015, Landing, Soyuz TMA-17M

A trio of Soyuz crew members parachuted down to a safe landing in the dark of night on Friday, returning from a 142-day mission to the International Space Station. Making a rare nighttime landing and the first post-sunset touchdown in ISS history, Soyuz commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers Kimiya Yui and Kjell Lindgren returned safely

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Photos: ISS Expedition 46 Crew Training, Russia

December 11, 2015December 12, 2015 Patrick Blau 3046 Views Crewed Spaceflight, ISS December 2015, Soyuz TMA-19M

The crew of International Space Station Expedition 46 completes training operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for a seven-month flight beginning in December 2015.

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Soyuz TMA-17M Undocks from ISS to set sail for Nighttime Return of three Crew Members

December 11, 2015January 28, 2017 Patrick Blau 2864 Views ISS December 2015, Kazakhstan, Landing, Soyuz TMA-17M

Three International Space Station residents departed the orbiting complex on Friday to start their return journey towards a rare nighttime landing of the Soyuz spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan.