PHOTOS: Astronauts From International Space Station Touch Down After 115 Days in Space : The Two-Way : NPR
Science • October 2016 • Views: 1,094
Three space travelers landed safely back on Earth late Saturday night.
The journey began in the evening, 5:12 p.m., ET to be exact, when the hatch to the International Space Station closed, and Kate Rubins, Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi climbed into the cramped Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft that would bring them home.
About three hours later, they separated from the space station as it flew over Mongolia. Inside, Ivanishin was at the controls as the ship’s commander.