News
September 16, 2011.
S.P. Korolev RSC Energia -
Mission Control Center, Korolev.
At 07:59:39 AM, Moscow Time, Soyuz TMA-21 descent vehicle made a soft landing in the designated landing area to the South-East of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. All the operations associated with the descent, search and landing of the descent vehicle went normally.
Russian cosmonauts Alexander
Samokutyayev (commander of Soyuz TMA-21 and flight engineer
of ISS-27 and ISS-28), Andrei
Borisenko (flight engineer of Soyuz TMA-21 and ISS-27, commander
of ISS-28) and NASA astronaut Ronald
Garan (flight engineer of Soyuz TMA-21, ISS-27 and ISS-28) have
completed their mission to the International Space Station (ISS)
under the program of expedition ISS-27/28.
Continuing to work onboard the space station is the crew of Expedition
Twenty Nine to the International Space Station (ISS-29): Russian
cosmonaut Sergei Volkov
(flight engineer of ISS-29), NASA astronaut Michael
Fossum (commander of ISS-29) and astronaut of the Japanese Space
Agency Satoshi Furukawa
(flight engineer of ISS-29).
At the Mission Control Center near Moscow (MCC-M), the work in support of the Soyuz TMA-21 de-orbiting maneuvers and re-entry, the search for the landed descent vehicle and evacuation of the crew from it was performed under the supervision of the State Commission (The Chairman is the Head of the Federal Space Agency V.A.Popovkin) and the Technical Management for flight tests of manned space systems (headed by President and General Designer of the S.P.Korolev RSC Energia V.A.Lopota).
During re-entry the flight was controlled by the Lead Operations Control Team (Flight Director is the First deputy general designer of RSC Energia V.A.Soloviev) working at MCC-M in cooperation with the specialists of the Air and Space Search and Rescue, other Russian organizations and services, as well as the US Mission Control Center in Houston.
The final descent and landing operations were witnessed by the representatives of Roskosmos, NASA, ESA, Russian companies and organizations involved in the ISS program who were present at MCC-M.
After crew evacuation from the descent vehicle of the Soyuz TMA-21, a press conference was held at MCC-M for Russian and foreign mass media.
For information:
The duration of the space mission of Alexander Samokutyayev, Andrei Borisenko and Ronald Garan was more than 164 days.
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