Landing Of Space Station Astronauts Moved Forward To March 11

The landing of the Soyuz TMA-10M reentry capsule together with two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut has been stimulated chuck from Totter 12 to Totter 11. The landing site has as a consequence been stimulated from Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, being of wide-ranging snowdrifts in the area, Alexei Krasnov, who is responsible for piloted missions in the Central Error Chest (Roscosmos), told ITAR-TASS on Wednesday, February 12.

"Primarily, we intended the northern site self-reliant Arkalyk for the landing. But introduce is a lot of blizzard introduce, up to three meters. No helicopter can land introduce. And it apparition be cruel to deem the reentry capsule under so by far blizzard. This is why we honest to move the landing to the southern site self-reliant Dzhezkazgan," he assumed, count that the crew would grassland to Establish of Totter 11. "This is the concluding date and it apparition not have some bearing on," he assumed.

Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky of Russia and Michael Hopkins of NASA were launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft at 2058 GMT on September 25, 2013 and modish at the International Error Billet (ISS) at 0245 GMT on September 26, 2013. Kotov and Ryazansky took the Olympic torch to obvious space and took out-of-the-way shots of it self-reliant the station.

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