Rescuers helped Soyuz MS-24 crew members get out
The Main Flight Control Room of the Russian segment of the ISS in the Mission Control Centre, the scientific research division of TsNIIMash JSC in Korolev, which is part of the Roscosmos structure, burst into applause at 10:17 Moscow time: the participants of the 21st visiting expedition – cosmonaut of the Roscosmos State Corporation Oleg Novitsky, first female cosmonaut of sovereign Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya, as well as participant of the 70th long-term expedition, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara – returned from the International Space Station to Earth
The sb.by correspondents were following the stages of landing from the screen of the Main Flight Control Room of the Russian segment of the ISS in the Mission Control Centre, the scientific research division of TsNIIMash JSC in Korolev, which is part of the Roscosmos structure. A bright orange parachute flashed during the online broadcast, and that was exactly what the broadcast followers, guests, journalists and Mission Control Centre specialists had been waiting for. They saw all the stages of parachuting: hatch-door jettisoning of the parachute container, deployment of the brake parachute, separation of the brake parachute, separation of the thermal protection, the change of the main one to a symmetrical suspension, the turning on the soft landing brake engines. The capsule with the crew landed on its side, and the cosmonauts' task was to stay there until the arrival of the search and rescue service, with which they had established contact during the parachuting. At 10:42, Oleg Novitsky, Marina Vasilevskaya and Loral O'Hara were taken out of the capsule – to be immediately examined by doctors.
For Oleg Novitsky, that was his fourth space flight: he has spent a total of 545 days in space. The crew of the 71st long-term expedition — Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Tracy Dyson – will continue the ‘space trip’.
