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Kazakhstan – 23 September 2024
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1. Wide tracking of Soyuz space capsule, carrying Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and US astronaut Tracy Dyson landing
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A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Monday in Kazakhstan, ending a record-breaking stay for the Russian pair.
The capsule landed on the Kazakh steppe about three and a half hours after undocking from the ISS in an apparently flawless descent.
Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub returned after 374 days aboard the space station, the longest continuous stay there. Also in the capsule was American Tracy Dyson, who was on the space station for six months.
Kononenko and Chub blasted off for the space station on Sept. 15, 2023, and on Friday set the record for the longest continuous mission on the ISS.
Eight astronauts remain on the space station, including Americans Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have remained long past their scheduled return to Earth.
They arrived in June as the first crew of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule. But their trip was marred by thruster troubles and helium leaks, and NASA decided it was too risky to return them on Starliner.
The two astronauts will ride home with SpaceX next year.
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