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Astronauts Christina Koch, Luca Parmitano and Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov Return Home from Space

Feb 27, 2020
now it's time to bring

christina

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luca

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welcome welcome back to mission control uh you're here in the flight control room of the international

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station where the team is preparing and following the Return of MS 13 Soyuz to land in Kazakhstan at 3:12 a.m. Central Time Today preparations have been underway since they undocked from the International Space Station at 11:50 and are now heading toward deorbitation at 2:18 a.m. central time to prepare for that landing that brings them

home

just southeast of jessica's departure in kazakhstan concluding a record-setting mission this will be the last orbit of earth for the expedition 61 crew members aboard the Soyuz for Luca Parmitano of Issa and Alexander Swartzov of Roscosmos, who launched on this Soyuz on July 20, this will be its 3,216th orbit, but NASA's Christina Cook, who arrived at the

space

station on March 14, will land today having orbited the Earth 5,000 times and traveled 139 million miles, enough to travel to the Moon and back 291 times.
astronauts christina koch luca parmitano and cosmonaut alexander skvortsov return home from space
Some of the additional accomplishments she racked up on her mission here again were 139 million miles traveled in addition to, of course, setting records for the most time in space in a single spaceflight for a seventh all-time female record for an American astronaut on the endurance list and ranked 50th all time for all

astronauts

. 328 days is enough time to do a lot, so let's take a look back at some of Christina Cook's memorable moments below. Without a doubt, my most memorable day was the first day. with the help of space station commander oleg kononenko

christina

cook of nasa the first to go through the hatch was greeted by her that was the day I have visions etched in my memory when I first got here opening the hatch and seeing some of my best friends on the other side floating around seeing my first glimpses of the real interior of the space station after having traveled here for six hours in a small Soyuz spacecraft that really exists for the betterment of humanity doing science and exploring That it was real and that I got to live here.
astronauts christina koch luca parmitano and cosmonaut alexander skvortsov return home from space

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astronauts christina koch luca parmitano and cosmonaut alexander skvortsov return home from space...

I am very privileged to have it as one of my favorite memories. The surprise that I have discovered is the ability of the human body and mind to adapt to any situation. Sometimes I joke that before Jessica got here and before I heard it. She all the time explained exclaiming how exciting and fun it was to float. I think she had actually forgotten that she was floating. The human mind has the ability to truly adapt to any situation and turn it into something normal. For example, the fact that we can just work on the roof like this and not even know the difference between the two, so it's been really exciting and a big surprise to see that life up here can become normal, I would say any food that we share together.
astronauts christina koch luca parmitano and cosmonaut alexander skvortsov return home from space
It's excellent and one of those, some of my favorites, I would say, would be our pizza nights. Our people on the ground sometimes send care packages and put together a small non-perishable pizza kit and we can put that together. pizzas in our kind of makeshift space oven using aluminum foil and a little creativity and seeing what everyone creates and shares with each other and just something a little bit different, a little bit out of the ordinary, that we really feel like we can make. preparing ourselves instead of just opening from a package, it's really special and a lot of fun.
astronauts christina koch luca parmitano and cosmonaut alexander skvortsov return home from space
A really amazing moment was the first time I saw my hometown in the area where I grew up, which is coastal North Carolina, and I saw those Outer Banks. I focus around the horizon and suddenly realize that what I was looking at was a simply stunning moment. Some of my other favorite things to watch would definitely be the auroras, the northern lights, and the aurora australis. I spent so many years working in Antarctica and the Arctic and seeing those auroras from below and seeing them on a planetary scale from above is really amazing, you know, just like those memories from the first day, there are a couple of flashes that I will never forget.
The spacewalk with Jessica Meer was just an incredible honor and there were moments where we looked at each other, for example right when we came out the hatch, we looked into each other's eyes and knew we were truly honored by this opportunity to inspire so many people. and Just hearing our voices talk to mission control and knowing that two female voices had never been in the loop to solve those problems together outside was really special, as you can see a lot accomplished in 328 days in space and a lot of enthusiasm by the support team. cook from the ground that last congratulatory message at the end came from some of the members of the international space station program team here in houston.
We'd love for you to post your own congratulations for christina cook on social media and you can do so using the hashtag congratulations christina we'll keep an eye out for those but in the meantime we have another congratulations message from a previous record holder that cook broke congratulations christina for breaking the record unique flight for a woman I'm very happy for you, we all know that gravity sucks, that of course was former NASA astronaut Peggy Woodson, who until December held the record for the longest space flight by a cook exceeded 288 whitson days on December 28 and has obviously continued to accumulate more days since then.
I will land with a total of 328 the new record for the longest space flight by a woman the second longest space flight by an American and seventh on the all-time endurance list for Americans there are six Americans who have passed more time in space than cook, but they all made multiple space flights to reach their totals, while this was cook's first again, you can send your congratulations to cook using the hashtag congratulations, congratulations christina cook

parmitano

and sports off said goodbye to crewmates Jessica Meer Andrew Morgan and Oleg Skripochka early this afternoon with plenty of photos of final hugs and greetings before battening down the hatches between their vehicle and the International Space Station at 8:34 PM Central Time.
This is a video recorded during those final goodbyes earlier today. Andrew Morgan appears in the screenshot below. here by jessica mir and there is oleg skripochka that was the last view we hope to see of the expedition 61 crew, cook parmitano and squirtsov before we see them exiting the soyuz on the ground in kazakhstan, after battening down the hatches They were able to obtain all necessary leak checks and preparations for a timely undocking from the space station at 11:50 p.m. central time, preparing them for landing today at 3:12 a.m. m., they have since moved to a position about 20 miles from the station and are almost ready for deorbitation which will take place at 2:18 a.m.
CT, just nine minutes from now here in the flight control room of the International Space Station, Flight Director Mike Lammers is leading the team here in Houston as they continue the deorbitation process. In tonight's activities, he's joined by one of our new flight directors, uh, Marcos Flores, who is with him tonight and then next to them, standing there in view, is Capcom Adam Springer, and in a beautiful there are several officials and vehicles waiting. In preparation for the landing, a total of 12 miles 8 helicopters have been deployed in various areas to await the landing of eight or at the expected landing site southeast of Jessica's Gun Kazakhstan, two more will be ready 250 miles away in a area where the landing would take place.
If a ballistic injury occurred and the last two helicopters are loitering halfway between the two, of course we don't expect a ballistic entry, but do you want to be prepared in case it's necessary? Turn off the fans on the cool and dry unit. If that is not the case. work well three five three s9 is already removed excellent copy of the wall and your objective is to configure the free command a little later well team inside the soyuz talking to the team that supports them in Russia you can see that here is the landing site Heading aboard the helicopters to that nominal landing site today are several NASA representatives, including Joel Montalbano, the deputy director of the space station program, Megan Macarthur, who is the deputy director of the astronaut office, and Trisha Mack, NASA's human spaceflight program.
Russia director, as well as NASA flight surgeons and photographer Bill Ingles and NASA spokesperson Rob Davis, unfortunately, the weather that will greet them at the landing site will not be particularly welcoming. The temperature will be around 25 degrees Fahrenheit or about negative three degrees Celsius, not the coldest. land sometime, but it's also not particularly comfortable and unfortunately for those of us watching at home, the forecast also calls for cloud cover, which means we may not see as many videos of the capsule descending to the ground as we sometimes do. , but once they have arrived, the landing team will quickly erect a medical tent at the landing site to get the crew out of the weather and keep them as comfortable as possible while they go through their regular post-landing checks.
Well, it is not deleted and the command was not sent three times. when you send the command, could you call us with a confirmation? One more question, so once we activate it we are supposed to confirm that it is correct. Yes, it is affirmative. Okay, copy well and of course I'll do it as usual, as I mentioned. Earlier, the Soyuz will be about 20 miles from the station at the time of its deorbitation. That combustion will begin 25 seconds after 2:18 a.m. Central Time and will end 4 minutes and 39 seconds later at 2:23 a.m. m., starting the engine will act as a break. on the soyuz while it is still 272 miles above the earth, slowing it down 128 meters per second or 286 miles per hour to deorbit it, you can see a graphic animation here of what that deorbit burn looks like about 23 minutes later at 2 46 am central, with the soyuz now at an altitude of 87 miles above the earth, the vehicle's computers will order the three soyuz modules to separate just above the first traces of earth's atmosphere.
You can see what their descent is. It looks like the orbital module on top is where the crew has a small amount of room to move during their flight to the station after launch and the instrumentation and propulsion module on the bottom which houses the storage tanks. oxygen, the attitude control thrusters, the avionics and communications and control equipment will be separated from the odor module in the middle where the crew is seated. It contains personally contoured seating for crew members to use during launch entry and landing, as well as all controls and displays necessary for critical flight activities.
It also has life. support provisions batteries for re-entry and landing and parachutes for soft-landing rocket motors to slow the vehicle just before landing the orbital module and the instrumentation and propulsion module will burn up in Earth's atmosphere while that descent module continues to cook parmitano and indoor sports three minutes later at 2 49 a.m. At about 62 miles or 326,000 feet above Earth, the Soyuz will begin atmospheric re-entry. The sensor module computer will orient the capsule with its ablative heat shield pointing forward to protect it from heat as it begins to fly through Earth's atmosphere and the crew. will begin to feel the first effects of gravity again, which will build up until 2:56 am, when they will experience the maximum g-load pressure for descent, they will probably fill briefly at four to five times the force of gravity, well, no i see nothing just two minutes later, 14 minutes before landing, when the soyuz is 35,000 feet above the earth and traveling at a speed of approximately 514 miles per hour, the soyuz computer will command the first in a series. of parachutes to deploy two pilot parachutes will come first, one 6.7 square feet and one 48.4 square feet, and together they will drag the drogue parachute to a 258 square foot parachute that slows the Soyuz to 178 miles per hour.
The drone shot will also create a gentle roll for the Soyuz as it hangs below, which will help stabilize the capsule in its final minutes before landing and, just before that landing, the drogue shoots will be jettisoned to make way for the deployment of the main parachute of 3281 feet and will continue to decelerate. the capsule at a speed of about 60 miles per hour at first, the capsule will hang below it at a 30-degree angle to the horizon to help with aerodynamic stability, but after one of the twoharnesses that connect the parachute, the capsule is cut, the soyuz will travel. itself so that it is upright until landing, we will approach that deorbitation in less than a minute, now there are 30 seconds left before the engine starts.
Copy the wall and I am monitoring all the parameters changing to maneuver screen caddy wu combined propulsion. unit parameters are nominal 10 seconds now until new orbit ignites yes three five three waiting for engine ignition confirm engine activation and ignition our team confirms orbit ignition has begun it will last 4 minutes and 39 seconds until 2 23 a.m. m. The engine firing acts as a break to slow down the Soyuz while it is about 272 miles above the Earth, which will take it out of orbit and send it away, sending it on its way to that landing just southeast of Jessica's gun consumption. 31 kilograms acceleration 14.1 0.45 and the combustion value is 14.1, nozzle pressure 12.6, pressure of the spherical tanks 175 and 0.45 and the current pressure is nominal one minute, one minute in the orbit, burn 0.45, this is the acceleration where delta v and propeller consumption is 55 kilograms, one minute, 15 12, inaudible, this is the nozzle pressure 0.45 139 45 inaudible one minute and 30 39.9 0.5 0.45 culture consumption inaudible one minute forty-five seconds without suppression twelve point six spherical tanks pressure 136. is decreasingacceleration 3.45 and 50. two minutes now on power up again we are aiming for four minutes and 39 seconds this will begin to decelerate soyuz six into the earth's atmosphere and bring it home two minutes uh 15 seconds nozzle pressure 12.6 spherical tanks pressure one two two uh that's w zero point forty-five and the current time is sixty-four point four two minutes uh thirty seconds uh six seven point five zero point forty-six pop consumption at 57 everything is nominal copy wall two minutes 45 seconds nozzle pressure 12.7 circular tank pressure 170 all parameters are nominal delta v 0.46 and time current is inaudible three minutes after burning one minute and 39 seconds left 8.5 0.46 this is the delta v 189 this is the accessory consumption value and all parameters are nominal 0.46 and inaudible 93.7 0, 46 and the propeller consumption is also nominal all the parameters are nominal 30 minutes 45 seconds 12.7 this is the nozzle pressure and 97.90 or 104.9 four minutes down now we are listening to the crew reports that everything seems nominal four minutes uh 107.9 0.46252 this is the propeller consumption rate everything is nominal four minutes and eleven seconds nozzle pressure twelve point eight twelve point five circular tanks one eight inaudible 0.45 what is six and 120 is five five seconds left 284 this is the propeller consumption value the thing is nominal waiting for engine activation deactivation activation confirmed good the valve is open and separation confirmed the burn value is one two eight one two seven point nine nine below the pressure is dropping took place and uh it ended exactly on time and it went exactly as planned that means the soyuz crew is definitely on their way home now they have been using that burn to

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to the earth's atmosphere, decelerate and begin their descent, which will take them to that landing at 3:12 a.m.
Central Time, just southeast of Jessica's gun in Kazakhstan, there will be a little weight here now before the next big milestone coming in about 23 minutes at 2 46 a. m. and that will be when the Soyuz computers will order its three modules to separate the crew members that are in the central module, they will get rid of the modules in either of the two. side of them that will make sure their heat shield is exposed and ready to protect them and the parachutes will be able to deploy and slow their descent once they are just minutes before landing again where the deorbit burn occurred.
Just in time at 2:18 am central time and finished just in time also 4 minutes and 39 seconds later, what do you think should be ready at this point and no later than what time six minutes before the separation time? Yes, I still have time, so we will start at approximately 11:42. Actually, at 11:38. And I would like to remind you to provide continuous feedback of your actions, even if there is no calm once again, four minutes and 39 seconds of deorbitation are. the key for the crew to

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home and conclude what will be a record-breaking mission for the crew members and particularly for Christina Cook, who will have spent 328 days in space, the longest space flight for any woman you will ever see.
In this video of its launch on March 14, 2019, he actually launched it with Nick Hague and Alexi de Chinen as part of the then Expedition 59 crew. He saw not only Expedition 59 come to an end but also, for of course, expedition 60 and then uh 61. which just concluded with his departure together with

luca

parmitano and

alexander

sportsov, this launcher triggered the count that eventually accumulated 200,328 days in space setting that record, but at the time of its launch, Christina didn't know she would stay. In space for so long, she handled the news well, although she was excited to have the extra time and space and has used it to accomplish quite a bit, including six spacewalks totaling 42 hours and 15 minutes, including three that were with her. and jessica meer the first three spacewalks will be carried out by an all-female team.
You can see some of the highlights of his mission here again, which are 328 days in space, six spacewalks for 42 hours and 15 minutes, all performed during the journey of 5,248 orbits around the earth a total of more than 139 million miles yes, that's right, in that many miles she could go to the moon and back 291 more times, that record leaves her with the longest space flight made by a woman and it is also the seventh longest time for a American astronaut passes in space. There are six American

astronauts

ahead of her, but they all completed her time on more than one mission.
This is, of course, her first mission and she ruined everything in that time. leaves her 50th place on the all-time endurance list for all astronauts and to give you an idea of ​​where she stands, in addition to having the longest space flight to buy a woman, she ranks second on the space flight list longest by an American is just a few days shy of Scott Kelly's record of 340 days and surpassed Peggy Whitson's previous record of 288 days in December, we're still about 15 minutes away from seeing that command from the Soyuz computers that, uh , will order the Soyuz modules to Separate which will arrive again at 2:45 a.m. m., central time, but in the meantime we are receiving confirmation here on the ground that the landing team that will meet with the parmitano cook and the sports at the landing site is on its way to again tour the uh, the different uh members of the team that will meet the crew when they land here's another look, a total of 12 miles 8 helicopters are en route to several possible landing sites eight will be at the expected landing site southeast of Jessica's gun, two more will be ready a about 250 miles away in an area where the landing would occur, there was a ballistic entry that we didn't expect and, uh, the last two helicopters are hovering halfway between the two, on top of that.
We're also sending six all-terrain vehicles, three Antonov aircraft that serve as flying command centers and these, that's a look at the all-terrain vehicles that are there. The Antonov aircraft will also provide communication between the crew and Moscow once again. We are counting down the minutes until approximately 2:46 a.m. when the uh modules of the Soyuz will separate following the command of the Soyuz computers, the orbital module at the top where the crew has a small amount of space to move during their flight into space. station after launch and the instrumentation and propulsion module on the bottom that houses the oxygen storage tanks, attitude control thrusters, avionics communications and control equipment, both separate, leaving the descent module in the middle one with just the crew inside, here's a look at what that descent module looks like you can see the three seats that the crew sits in.
They have seats that are specially molded to try to give them as much cushioning as possible during landing. It's not a large area but it doesn't have to be. on it alone for a long time, so look at some of the controls in view as they make the descent. We saw some of them earlier during undocking, as well as the controls, screens and seats. It also has life support provisions, batteries for re-entry and landing, a parachute and soft landing rockets that helped slow the vehicle just before landing. Try to make it a little smoother with the other two modules, the orbital module and the instrumentation and propulsion.
Both modules burn up in Earth's atmosphere while the descent module continues. You can see that orbital module here which again gives them a little extra room to move around on their way to the space station, but once they're on their way home, get rid of that, leaving just the descent module here in the middle and also get rid of the instrumentation and propulsion module at the bottom. um my microphone here like this, everything continues to go well as we wait for the next big milestone. 2 46 a.m. central time when the soyuz descent module will jettison the orbital module and the instrumentation propulsion module will allow the crew conti the crew to continue their journey well, let's prepare the rescue aids by closing hull dividers closing and two clicks even maybe and now command s3 releasing ptc breaks down here the events we'll be watching for as the Soyuz returns to Earth, starting with that deorbit burn that took place at 2:18 AM. m., central time, right around the time we are heading. now, towards the separation of the module, the second milestone on the list that will arrive in about six minutes, now is when the central part of the soyuz that carries the crew we will get rid of the other two segments so that all the systems it needs to The landing is exposed and ready for entry.
Once we see the module separation, things will start happening pretty quickly at 2:49 AM. Central time, about three minutes later, while the Soyuz is 62 miles above Earth, it will begin to experience atmospheric entry, that's when the descent modules. The computers will orient the capsule with its heat shield pointing in the direction it is traveling in the hot part to protect it from the heat as it begins to fly through the Earth's atmosphere and the crew begins to feel the first effects of the gravity that will be generated. through it. uh 2 56 AM Central Time when they will experience the maximum g load or pressure of about four to five times the force of gravity for a few minutes or just briefly, just two minutes after that we will start to see the parachutes start to deploy.
As you have seen here, there are several. It starts with two pilot parachutes that take out a larger parachute that slows down the Soyuz a bit and in turn takes out the main parachutes, the orange and white one that you see on this one. graphic, but just before it lands, another system helps the Soyuz slow down the soft-landing planes, as they are called, a little more, although most astronauts will tell you it's not a particularly soft landing, even with its help, those shots almost two seconds before landing to help lessen the impact of encountering Earth, start of the separation cyclogram, we should be approaching that module separation here in just a moment.
I see separation minus one minute and 14 seconds. This happens when the Soyuz is about 87 miles above. Earth, please continue to inform us even if there is no two-way calm. Crews here on the ground are reporting that crew members are passing through an area where some miscommunication was expected. Little communication ability between us and this crew aboard the Soyuz, so hopefully we'll hear some confirmation as things happen, we should be right to see that separation, the separation of the three Soyuz modules, separation and that's it, sounds like if they were now separated, which again occurs when the land is used 87 miles above.
Earth sends the orbital module and instrumentation and propulsion module on their way to burn up in Earth's atmosphere, while the crew module goes up, the odor module stays with the crew inside along with its heat shield and parachutes. that will help them come down safely to Earth. The next milestone we will look for is atmospheric entry which will occur in approximately two minutes. That's when the crew begins to feel the effects of gravity for the first time sinceThey left Earth. That was 328 days ago for Christina Cook 201. for luca parmitano and alexander skortsov also at this time the descent module computer will orient the capsule so that the heat shield points forward protecting it from the heat generated as it begins to experience the atmosphere Again, we're in the middle of a period where the communication between us and Soyuz was expected to be a little spotty, so we may not hear much from the crew as they begin to head back home, but we do hear that that achieved a successful separation of the three modules and now we are observing. so that you start experiencing the earth's atmosphere for the first time in the last few minutes, you will have gone from 87 miles above the earth to about 62 miles again, things start happening pretty quickly now, once you start experiencing the earth's atmosphere, the Soyuz's onboard computers will, of course, begin moving the Soyuz into position for its landing order at this time as the crew begins to feel the effects of gravity again and will then continue building for the next six minutes or so.
When they experience maximum pressure or g-load, they can expect to feel four to five times the force of gravity we experience on Earth just for a moment. All 61 members of the expedition are on track for that 3:12 a.m. landing time. They have been heading since they left the international space station at 11:15. Everything happened in sequence and on time so far, starting with today's deorbit at 2:18 AM. Central Time, and put the expedition, 61 crew members, on track for landing at 3:12 a.m. m. We are currently right in the middle of that descent, reaching the maximum pressure that the crew will experience and in the middle of a plasma interface that will come out of that in just a couple of minutes and then shortly after that we will begin.
Watching the parachutes deploy, we are just now reaching that moment when the crew members will experience the maximum g-loads. What is the charge g? We have 4.28 right now. We copy the integral is 0 1 5 and we have automatic descent control and now 30 second reports. of the crew members there lined up exactly as expected, with the point that we may be experiencing those maximum G-loads now, about a minute away from when we would expect the parachutes to begin deploying at about 35,000 feet above the ground at the moment. We will be traveling at about 500 miles per hour, we had O2 supplies, so the pressure is different.
Now deployments will begin with the two pilot parachutes ejecting the 258 square foot parachute that decelerates the Soyuz to 178 miles per hour in just about 16 seconds and begins to stabilize the capsule, once jettisoned it makes way for the 3,281 main parachute. feet that swings up to approximately 15.6 miles per hour. Standing still, see some animation here of that sequence. Oh, the parachutes should start deploying right now again with that. Two pilot shots first take out a parachute that decelerates the Soyuz to 178 miles per hour and then makes way for the big, yellow, orange and white main parachutes that you're used to seeing and which continue to decelerate the Soyuz to about 15.6 miles per hour. per hour will keep the Soyuz constantly decelerating as they head toward the ground for more than 10 minutes, which again not only slows them down but also helps them stabilize as they move toward that landing.
We are expecting that at 3:12 a.m. Central Time, two harnesses on the main parachute will hold the Soyuz at a 30-degree angle to the horizon until the lower harness is cut and the Soyuz can rotate to a vertical position for landing. and it looks like The team in the uh and the flight control team in Russia is watching a video of the Soyuz descending already under the main parachute that will continue to decelerate the Soyuz to 15.6 miles per hour nine for number one in inaudible. uh safety for the second one, we're working on getting a better shot of that video for you, but uh, it's all there and that's a great view of the soyuz under the main parachute, not as cloudy as predicted, looks very viewable clear without problems, it's actually the first time we've gotten high-definition video of the landing, so it's especially fortuitous that we get such clear video despite the cloudy weather predictions inside the capsule, there's Christina Cook, Luca Parmitano and Alexander Schwartzoff.
Just minutes away from his triumphant return to Earth, which should take place around 3:12 a.m. Central Time, so they still have another 10 minutes to slow down as they move toward Earth as they approach about two seconds early. Before touching down, the pressure for the sport saw to receive a computer prompt to ignite six solid propellant engines called soft landing engines reduces the Soyuz's speed to five people and five feet per second or about three and a half miles per hour 0.5 0.3 Once again, this video comes from helicopters heading to the landing site ready to receive them. Around eight helicopters will converge on the landing site with a number of NASA and Russian Cosmos support personnel waiting. the airport, so we are not going to do anything else at this time, my correction to what I said there, this video actually comes from the team that arrived on the ground, ready to rush to meet the crew once the helicopters land, too, of course. converging on the landing side to provide your support staff too oh yes it's 33 unavoidable so use ms-13 to continue your gentle descent en route to a 3:12am landing in Kazakhstan this is the current altitude , everything looks good so far. descends again, great view here the first time we've been able to get HD video from the landing site to these views coming from the team that has already arrived at the location where we expect the Soyuz to land.
To Earth there are only a few more minutes left and Christina Cook's record-breaking space flight 328 days in space is about to come to an end with this upcoming landing, will you scream? I saw audible inaudible uh christina, yeah, go ahead, okay, so she uses this 13 I continue down just a few more minutes. I scheduled a touchdown in two minutes. Actually, at 3.12 a.m. m., hopefully we'll get some video there. It's in Christina Cook, Luca Parmitano and Alexander Sportzov again, one of the last things. What will happen here will be the ignition of the soft landing engines that will occur just a couple of seconds before the actual landing, when you are about 39 feet above the ground, which are six solid propellant engines that are intended to soften the blow of the landing only a low altitude Soyuz also has shock absorbers in the seats that will already be activated for that landing and the seats themselves are contoured to fit the astronauts individually to give them the softest landing possible, although all reports indicate that It is still not a completely soft land.
Inside you can also see one of the helicopters that have been sent to rendezvous with the Soyuz in that view and it appears that the Soyuz MS-13 carrying Christina Cook, Luca Parmitano and Alexander Schwartzoff landed at 3:12 a.m., central time, just in time and now, after 328 days in space and 139 million miles for Christina Cook and 201 days in space, 85 million miles for Luca Parmitano and Alexander Sportswell, the Expedition 61 crew is officially back home. The landing occurred just at 3:12 a.m. CT, 3:12 p.m. m., Kazakhstan. time after the deorbit burn that you said is underway, get it underway at 2:18 a.m.
Central Time, now that the Soyuz has landed, we'll start to see, hopefully, with this great view we're getting, some of the helicopters begin to land. Around him, teams descend now that he has safely reached the ground and can move. A number of landing support personnel will move into place to help crew members exit the Soyuz. We should see them as we usually do. uh in the chairs in front of your vehicle before you are taken to the medical tent for your post-landing checks, again it's about 25 degrees Fahrenheit in Kazakhstan here at the landing site today so you probably won't want to stay long time, but as soon as we can get some of them to her, we will definitely do it again for Christina Cook.
This concluded a record-breaking mission. 328 days, the longest space flight by a woman of any nation and the seventh longest space flight. for men or women for American astronauts, it launched on March 14, 2019 and has been on the space station since seeing several crew members come and go, its current crewmates aboard the soyuz luca parmitano and alexander switzoff arrived at the station on july 20. with andrew morgan who stayed on the international space station he jessica mirren and oleg skripochka will be there until april during those 328 days in space in space cook traveled 139 million miles the equivalent of 29 to 291 round trips to the moon and back to Luca Parmitano and Alexander Sportsov they spent 201 days in space, they made 500, excuse me, 3216 orbits and traveled 85 billion miles, although they are back on earth, their journey is not over yet, they will have to return to Star City to play sports.
He will be traveling back to Europe and Christina will of course be returning to the United States. They have a little more of a journey ahead of them, but first we will wait for the landing support crew members to head to the capsule and start removing them, we are seeing many of your congratulatory messages coming in for Christina Cook using the hashtag Congratulations Christina, you are great and we really appreciate you and of course we were also ahead of your landing, collecting some congratulations. messages from the teams that support it here on the ground we have another one coming from the jet propulsion laboratory in california hi christina matt bennett here I am the project manager oco 3 ralph basilio and the project scientist dr anne-marie eldering and we Just I want to thank you for all your interest in the ocs 3 project and all the beautiful photographs you took of oco three in action on the space station.
We are so glad you are home safe and sound to all of us here at jpl. Welcome. home, it's certainly not too late to receive your own congratulatory messages, so keep sending using the hashtag congratulations christina, we are waiting as we wait to receive some video of the landing site very soon while we wait for the video of the landing site to come , uh, tune in, we have one more video, uh, congratulating Christina from the teams that have been supporting her here on the ground, welcome home Christina, it's been great supporting you from the iss smurf, thank you, welcome home , Christina, congratulations on your record.
Setting the mission for your Boeing Houston Iss team, two more teams that have been supporting Christina Cook and the other space station crew members from the ground sitting in Congratulations, and just one more reminder you can send using the hashtag Congratulations Christina. We are still waiting to receive video from the landing site, but we have personnel on the ground who are ready to send us some reports. One of them is NASA spokesperson Rob, Navy, Rob, can you hear us? Yes, I can't summarize. uh a notable scene here a trip roughly equivalent to 291 round trips to the moon o christina cook is over the soyuz nf13 stuck landing in its upright position and they are in the process of beginning to place the erector through a stair. at the top of the patch, it steals slightly, i think we may be missing some of what you're saying there, it looks like you said soyuz landed upright, they are putting the ladder in place and hopefully we'll be getting the ones soon crew members came out, yeah, Randy, uh, it's, the MS-13 landed upright, they'll pick up a putter and start.
This is very quickly here, the scene here is almost as realistic in the middle of this desolate southern area. Central Kazakhstan on the ground, all Russian Mia Coppers were on the ground four minutes after landing, just one notable accurate landing between cook luca parmitano and alexander scorpio. We watched a great video as it descended with no clouds along the way. fortunately, but we don't have any video of the scene at the landing site yet, so we're still waiting for that, okay, bear with me, now the ladder is being placed around the top of the spaceship. that will set the stage for the opening of the hatch by rsc and nergia staff there first on the scene uh medical staff consisting of nasa flight surgeon european space agency flight surgeon and russian flight surgeon and their respective nurses are all ready to attend to their respective crew members, this entire processIt will take just a few minutes before each of the crew members are extracted from the Soyuz lander, they will be placed in chairs, that is the current plan, although it is quite cold here, sub-zero temperatures in the mid 20s degrees Fahrenheit, how long they'll actually stay in stock, uh, remains to be seen before they're taken to that inflatable medical tent for initial medical tests.
Yes, I imagine they won't be. They won't want to outstay them. They have to be ready to get into that medical tent as soon as they can. If you are seeing your first images from the landing site, you are seeing some of the inaudible rsc personnel and search and recovery forces, they will begin the process. Momentarily after opening that upper hatch, Soyuz commander Alexander is placed in the center seat of the descent module, he will be the first to be extracted, followed in all likelihood by Parmitano and Cook. There is no video for us yet, so we depend on the description of it. for a while longer, as is often the case, the flags of Russia and Kazakhstan have been planted in a perimeter around the landing site again, just a very surreal scene in a foot of snow in early February, a crew that barely makes A few hours I was in the comfort of the international space station back on Earth.
Christina Cook completed 328 days in space. The second longest American space flight in history. You've seen several of these landings up close and personal. Can you compare them? this to others or classify them in any way, yes, I would tell you that the speed at which our helicopters were on the ground and our ability to see the Soyuz below the shoots in the final minutes before the soft landing engines were fired and the landing took place. you never get tired of it, it's just a remarkable scene, the Soyuz itself, as is always the case, its outer hull scorched by the heat of re-entry, but the staff here working very quickly to open the top hatch, the ladder having already been erected and we.
We are expecting to see the first items removed from the Soyuz vehicle, soon followed by the crew members one by one and I assume sports will come first. Yes, the Soyuz commander is always the first to leave because that leaves the way clear for the other crew members. who flanked him during reentry uh look apartment city of flight engineer number one to his left christina cook flight engineer number two to his right they will be extracted uh after the midget but they have to take out the soyuz commander first to clear the way for extraction From the other crew members, we're still waiting to see more videos, but in the meantime we're hearing from a lot of people watching on social media sending their congratulations to Christina using the hashtag Congratulations Christina, so we hope you can pass on those congratulations when If you see her and her crewmates, we'll definitely be drinking that brandy, as I'm sure you've already informed us earlier in the day, once the crew has completed about an hour and a half.
Medical tests will be carried out in that nearby tent that has already been set up. They will be flown by three individual helicopters on a two hour and 10 minute flight back to the northeast of our landing site here in the city of Carlinganda where they will take place. undergo a short period of additional medical testing before cooking parmitano bought a nasa jet to head to cologne germany alexander prepares to board a plane from the gagarin

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training center to fly back to his home in star city russia es in Colonia where the European astronaut center is located in Farmington and other visa personnel who will be on the NASA plane will be dropped off and will be received by that VIP at the Colonia airport.
It is actually a military airfield on the side adjacent to the commercial side of Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany and Christina Cook will undergo some additional medical tests which was the planned protocol in Cologne before re-boarding the NASA jet. We will return to Houston and surprisingly the trip from space to Earth takes less time than the trip of the crew members back to their own homes exactly I will tell you that today we heard about two or three hours ago that after the crew closed the hatch of his Soyuz spacecraft leaving draw morgan jessica muir and the new the new iss commander alex proposed behind that jessica muir uh reported uh sure it's lonely here but that won't be the case for long in a A couple of months from now another Soyuz launch with Chris Cassidy, Nikolai Figanoff and Andre Bapkin will be organized from the Viking Cosmodrome which is southwest of where we are at the time of the launch scheduled for April 9 to replenish the crew of the station at least for a period of eight days until a full complement of six people, the hugs in orbit that we saw during the closing of the hatch and also the words of luca parmitano while handing over command of the station to olegs krapochko were very touching, you could tell team, you could see they were going to miss each other and they have also been tweeting as they get closer to their departure about how much they will miss being together in space still no video from us unfortunately robo sorry uh brandi are you getting the video yet? cook, they had trained together, they were classmates in their astronaut class several years ago, and of course, they carried out a series of all-female spacewalks to set another mark in history, as if they were in the records that were being set. establishing during the course of the expedition. 61 which saw a record nine spacewalks with a total of 61 hours of dead even, very ironic, in those nine spacewalks during the exclusive expedition 62 away from Netflix, they certainly earned themselves arrest after everything they did in space , I'm sure they're eager to get home.
At this point, Russian search and recovery forces and support personnel execute one of these landings and subsequent recoveries. We are actually looking beyond a series of Russian Mia helicopters. There are some local villagers who are riding native horses in a foot of snow here. in the south central steppe of Kurdistan, you never know, Randy can't wait to see the video, it looks like it's going to be really good, I mean it's just amazing. There is no wind here with a temperature of around 20 degrees and the natives travel in their natives. horses just a little bit of the ride in local uh in local horses on Thursday are you guys doing any of the rs and the nugget staff are a process of starting to gather the ropes for the main parachute that will be folded?
Up and back for post-flight analysis, the upper hatch has now opened making way for the MS-13 spacecraft, the big orange and white parachute you're used to seeing on four landings and here at the landing site during the descent of the soyuz spacecraft uh that parachute uh will be picked up and uh and uh brought back for engineers to do an analysis of the coast works like a charm without the key presence of the wind preview today the soyuz landed upright, which is the preferred orientation although they will crawl sideways, of course there is another hatch available for those extracted.
We should see Alexander Sports being taken out of the Soyuz spacecraft here almost any moment the chairs they will be placed in with very warm blankets have been placed to cover them, so we will expect to see all three crew members here before long and now they are in the process of bringing out the first crew member and, indeed, Alexander Sports, the veteran Soyuz commander, with more. more than 500 days in space now on three space missions smiling widely an entire flank of photographers and television cameras here at the landing site is now resting on the edge of the Soyuz spacecraft and they will spin it around and help it lower the ladder and they will take you to your chair for a few minutes to regain your balance and how are some of the rsc and nerdy staff in the process of removing you from your soyuz spacecraft and it looks like they are starting to record a video in the control center of Russian flight, so hopefully we'll see for ourselves soon.
We're looking at a smaller version right now. Guardsoff is outside the spaceship. They will help you go down the slide that is part of this. This latest gadget in the top hatch of the Soyuz is smiling broadly and is now back on the tarot signing and we're watching it live now, Rob, thank you so much for keeping us informed while we waited. We got it just in time to see it. Their smiles and thumbs up are very good. We will be here with you, Brandi, and provide any additional details we can do. I'm going to try to reposition myself so I can get a better view of Christina. cook or if she comes out of the soyuz alexander scorsov certainly looks like he's happy to be home raising his fist in the air shaking hands many supporters available once again on this mission alexander scorsov racked up 201 days in space but he's adding that to what he uh uh totaled in the previous space uh three uh two previous space flights now to come to 546 total days that he has spent in space during those three space flights and brandi, if I can interrupt christina cook, your record holder She has a thumbs up and a big smile, yes we are watching it in real time.
She definitely seems happy to be home again. 328 days she spent in space since his lunch on March 14. The cook is now going down the slide. Brandi and will be. Carried to her chair she smiles and looks like she feels great yes we can still hear you steal okay I'm going to head over to christina christina welcome home current record holder for the longest space flight by a woman of any nationality and the seventh longest or the seventh-longest accumulated space flight time by an American astronaut, Grandma, they simply moved her chair a few feet back from where she was standing to give the group of photographers and television cameras here a little more room to position themselves. now they have made themselves sunglasses as you can no doubt see and they were waiting for the extraction of luca palmitano who has spent more days in space than any other european space agency, we are waiting for that, we are still seeing a view of alexander in this moment.
Schwartzoff still looks like she feels pretty good and happy to be home still giving the thumbs up to Brandon just looked around at a large group of people here to greet her hermit roommates and she uttered the word wow, very impressed and very happy to I will be breathing this nice cold air this Thursday afternoon. I think a lot of people are saying "wow" about her too. A big applause for Luca Parmitano. If you see him being held back by the slide, he is no stranger to you. Get support and cook. and just offer to give a big look like you have three happy astronauts there, glad to be back on Earth, as you pointed out he has the most days in space of any astronaut from the East right now, with his two flights spaces in total. 367 days in space which includes the 201 from which he just returned, Creole for all terrain, he is a member of the police crew that remains until the landing perimeter.
The type of crew members are finished in the medical tent from which they will be kicked out. the medical tent uh to their respective helicopters taking the trip back to the city of Karaganda, as we mentioned earlier, we are watching Alexander Schwartzoff right now on the phone, I guess I'm probably talking to some, some family or friends who are watching from the distance. although it looks crowded there at the landing site from this view, if you could rotate the camera, there would be empty space around it, so they really are in the middle of nowhere, yes, this, this landing site, which It's typical. in their latitude and longitude for the Soyuz landing, the nominal Soyuz landings, which of course were these, their wide open spaces.
I'm amazed at the natives who came to see this landing on horseback and who are just a few meters from us here, that is. The fortunate opportunity for you to see Randy, welcome home. I hope it's just a few more minutes before they start taking the crew members one by one to the nearby medical tent I'm bringing. I'm away here for a while and we'll let him know when the process starts, if he's not already watching. I'm probably standing 15 feet away from the Soyuz spacecraft. Some of the early return items are being unloaded from the top hatch. from where the crew was extracted just a few minutes ago.
In fact, I'm going to take a ride here to get a closer look at the natives on horseback. Local Kozak residents are talking to some engineering staff who took a moment. from workwith a parachute, put it in the right configuration, they have a dog with them, so a little bit of nature mixed with human spaceflight here today, again, you've been there several times, it's the first time. For you, I have never seen this Randy. He is extraordinary. I mean, there are small villages in the vicinity of this landing site, not immediately within a few feet, of course, or within a few miles, but for some surprising reason.
These people know when the landings are about to happen and in this world of GPS and other capabilities they know exactly where the Soyuz spacecraft will land. I'd go out and see it too if I was around. The other thing that is quite notable is the fact that this cold front that brought a foot of snow to the region in the last few days passed right on time and as predicted, when we left the city of Karaganda this morning it was very very gray cloudy and it was snowing to the northeast, as soon as we took off and the helicopters, however, we could see clear skies as far as the eye could see and it turned into a beautiful winter day, we are watching eating sports. an apple right now, I know Christina Cook was craving chips and salsa, I think that's in her near future, there's no doubt there are enough salsa ships at NASA's plain house that house several napkin restaurants in Houston, I'll tell you no. shortage of their favorite delicacy on the way home everyone still looks happy lots of smiles everyone is happy of course they have entered the traditional group photo process the team very calm fresh air here sounds like we have lost uh Stealing from the navies there giving us the playback from the uh in the scene in Kazakhstan, but as you can see, we still have the video, so we can see the activities, the activities continue and they should.
I will be preparing to move the crew to the medical tent sometime very soon, thanks, my blanket trains look like that moved medical tent is imminent, starting with Alexander Schwartzoff, landing support personnel will be taking the crew members to the store so they don't do it. They have to risk moving on their own when their balance may still be adjusting from their reintroduction to gravity. What, huh? Come on and now we also have Rob Navys back online with us Who's there on the scene? Rob Can you hear us? Another short trip being taken by the human space agency and Russian personnel to that medical tent.
Christina Cook will follow us shortly. Yes. We are seeing Luca Parmitano on the way now and Christina Cook is now being hoisted by Russian and NASA personnel and they will take her to the medical center to begin medical testing on her. uh, we mentioned that it will take an hour and a half to complete, so we'll change it. Back to you Brandi uh in mission control in Houston and we'll talk to you later after we start the trip back to Houston. Thank you very much for all the great descriptions. Robbie really appreciates you calling and please stop by.
Congratulations and welcome to the three crew members. Well, we'll make that brandy and have a good rest of the day. Another successful space station mission in the books. In fact, thanks again, Rob, and we appreciate you being the one playing. Playing, it's been great to have and there's Christina Cook walking into the medical tent still with smiles and thumbs up, all the crew members seem to feel pretty good about having spent 201 to 328 days in space, checkups. Getting the crew members subdued inside the medical tent will take a while, so this will be the last we see of them for our coverage of the landing here today.
Hopefully we'll be able to provide you with some video as you start moving forward. Home um via video files uh coming soon but uh that uh that's probably the last we'll see of them in Kazakhstan. You can see there some of the nearby residents who have come to watch the welcome home ceremony. and a great view of the soyuz ms-13 here still being unloaded, they will get a lot of scientific experiments and data from the spacecraft, it will return home with the astronauts, me once again with the crew. Now inside the medical tent, we don't expect to see you again from the landing site in Kazakhstan, so we wanted to go over some of the records set, totals, and statistics from this mission before we wrap up. our coverage uh of course uh for luca parmitano and alexanderSchwarzov, they launched in July on July 20 along with Andrew Morgan from Kazakhstan, so they have a total of 201 days in space for this mission, but heck, this is none of his first missions, so they have additional totals to add that for Alexander.
Sportszov has now accumulated 546 days in space in the three flights in which he has participated for Luca Parmitano with two flights, the total rises to 360. Hello, I am John Grunsfeld, NASA astronaut, Hello, I am Christy Hansen Johnson Space Center task eva astronaut training leader and flight controller and eva stands for extra vehicular activity, which is just another long way of saying spacewalk and I was able to do eight spacewalks on the Hubble Space Telescope, you might be wondering how we learned to perform complex tasks using all the cool tools we used on the hubble space telescope christie, how did we learn to do all that?
As Eva Task Training Leader, one of my big duties was to work alongside the astronauts for approximately two years on

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