The Soyuz TMA-02M capsule carrying three International Space Station crew members landed safely in Arkalyk, northern Kazakhstan. The astronauts stayed for over five months on board the ISS.
Pictured: Attending pesronnel is meeting the capsule.
The three astronauts inside of the capsule.
They’re being helped to get out of the capsule.
A helicopter near Arkalyk.
Welcoming the astronauts.
They pulled the astronauts out of the capsule one by one.
And then, brought them to the medical center.
In the picture: the American astronaut.
The Japanese astronaut and doctors.
Examination of the astronaut from Russia.
The three astronauts and the staff of attendants.
They held a press conference after the successfull landing wearing Kazakh national costumes.
The American astronaut is holding a Russian doll.
Location: Kazakhstan
via daypic.ru
I want a hat like the ones they are wearing!
There are no “astronauts” in Russia, mind you.
There are Cosmonauts and here´s one of them.
Yeah, astronauts walk on the moon.
Did they now, or was it a good Hollywood production?
We´ll see when a COSMONAUT or Taikonaut land there to see the alleged remains…
Well then it’ll be a long time because the Russians and Chinese aren’t going to get there any time soon! lol
“There are no “astronauts” in Russia, mind you.”
Wrong, every time NASA astronauts travel to Russia there are astronauts in Russia
Russians can call them whatever they want while they’re there, but they work for NASA and NASA says they are astronauts.
I’ll add that Japan officially designates their spacefarers as astronauts too. So this flight was actually one Russian cosmonaut alongside two astronauts from NASA and JAXA.
Heros!
Nice hats…
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
Nice recovery, but when will we finally learn the truth about the missing Cosmonauts?
Americans are astronauts, period. It doesn’t matter what country’s space vehicle they are traveling in. They are still astronauts.
I saw them receive those hats on the NASA channel last week, pretty funny.