Leaving the International Space Station
Explanation:
It was time to go home.
During their eight days aboard the
Earth-
orbiting
International Space Station (ISS),
ESA Flight Engineer
Claudie Haigner, Russian Commander
Victor Afanasyev, and Russian Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev
had completed several experiments and
successfully delivered a new lifeboat.
The lifeboat was actually the new
Soyuz capsule they arrived in -- they
returned home in an older Soyuz capsule that
had been left six months ago.
Haigner, an expert in
rheumatology and
neuroscience, studied the development of
frog
embryos under
microgravity conditions.
Pictured above on
October 31, their Soyuz spacecraft
undocks from the ISS while
dark space and a blue Earth hover in the
background.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings,
and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
