Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Mission Updates: spaceflight101.com/soyuz-ms-01
Temperatures were barely above freezing Sunday morning when a Soyuz space capsule parachuted to a safe landing in South Central Kazakhstan, returning with a crew from Russia, Japan and the U.S. after circling the Earth 1,840 times in a busy mission to the International Space Station.
Anatoli Ivanishin, Takuya Onishi and Kate Rubins enjoyed a flawless homecoming Saturday night, starting with their departure from the orbiting outpost at 0:35 UTC to mark the start of a two-orbit free flight aboard their Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft ahead of a rocket-powered braking maneuver and blazing re-entry into the atmosphere. Deploying its huge orange-and-white main chute, Soyuz punched through a broken cloud deck above its remote landing site and fired rockets to cushion its contact with Terra Firma at 3:58 UTC, marking the completion of a four-month mission.
Mission Updates: spaceflight101.com/soyuz-ms-01
Temperatures were barely above freezing Sunday morning when a Soyuz space capsule parachuted to a safe landing in South Central Kazakhstan, returning with a crew from Russia, Japan and the U.S. after circling the Earth 1,840 times in a busy mission to the International Space Station.
Anatoli Ivanishin, Takuya Onishi and Kate Rubins enjoyed a flawless homecoming Saturday night, starting with their departure from the orbiting outpost at 0:35 UTC to mark the start of a two-orbit free flight aboard their Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft ahead of a rocket-powered braking maneuver and blazing re-entry into the atmosphere. Deploying its huge orange-and-white main chute, Soyuz punched through a broken cloud deck above its remote landing site and fired rockets to cushion its contact with Terra Firma at 3:58 UTC, marking the completion of a four-month mission.
