News
November 26, 2010.
S.P. Korolev RSC Energia -
Mission Control Center, Korolev
Descent vehicle (DV) of Soyuz TMA-19 returned to the ground at 07:47 Moscow time. All operations for de-orbit, search and landing of the Descent Vehicle passed normally.
Russian cosmonaut Fedor
Yurchikhin, NASA astronauts Shannon
Walker and Douglas Wheelock
completed their flight to the International Space Station (ISS)
under the ISS-24/25 Expedition program.
The crew of Prime Expedition 26 consisting of cosmonauts Alexander
Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka,
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly
(the ISS-26 commander) continues working onboard the Station.
At Mission Control Center near Moscow (MCC-M) operations to perform such maneuvers as de-orbit and return of the Soyuz TMA-19 vehicle to the ground, search for DV landed and the crew evacuation from it were provided under control of the State Commission (under the chairmanship of A.N. Perminov, Head of the Federal Space Agency) and Technical Management for of flight tests of the manned space complexes (led by V.A. Lopota, RSC Energia President, General Designer).
Lead Operational Control Team (LOCT) controlled the Soyuz TMA-19 flight operations in the phase of the return to the ground (V.A. Soloviev, First Deputy General Designer of RSC Energia is the Flight Director). LOCT worked at MCC-M in cooperation with specialists of aerospace search and rescue, other Russian organizations and services, as well as the U.S. Mission Control Center in Houston.
Representatives of Roscosmos, NASA, ESA, Russian enterprises and organizations involved in the ISS program implementation, who were available at MCC-M, watched the operations performance for the vehicle de-orbit and its DV landing to the ground.
Upon the crew evacuation from DV the press conference was held for the Russian and foreign journalists at MCC-M. Managers and representatives of Roscosmos, RSC Energia, foreign space agencies, leading enterprises of rocket-space industry of Russia took part in it.
For reference:
- The Soyuz TMA-19 DV made a soft landing in the design area 85 km to the north of Arkalyk, Republic of Kazakhstan.
- For safety assurance during DV landing AN-12, AN-24 aircraft, Mi-8 helicopters, search and rescue vehicles were used; in this case all design landing points both during the controlled and ballistic descent were covered.
- The duration of F. Yurchikhin, Sh. Worker and D. Wheelock space flight was about 164 days.
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