Trio had to stay longer on International Space Station after their original return capsule was hit by space junk
astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just over a year. American Frank Rubio set a record for the longest US spaceflight – a result of the extended stay.
What should have been a 180-day mission turned into a 371-day stay. Rubio spent more than two weeks longer in space than Mark Vande Hei, who held Nasa’s previous endurance record for a single spaceflight.The Soyuz MS-23 capsule carrying the International Space Station crew of Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio lands in Kazakhstan.
Prokopyev told ground controllers throughout the descent that all three were feeling good. They experienced more than four times the force of gravity as their capsule streaked through the atmosphere and came to a touchdown in the barren Kazakh steppes, ending up on its side. Helicopters moved in with recovery crews to fetch the astronauts.Rescue team members help Sergey Prokopyev to get out of the Soyuz capsule.
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