NASA’s oldest active astronaut has redefined the journey of “home” for your birthday, descending from the international space station on the same day, he turned 70 years old.
Don Petit touched down on Saturday , Riding on the same spacecraft,
Petit was born on April 20, 1955 in Silverton, Oregon, but said that the feeling of home is relative to it.
“After staying at (the) space station for seven months, we will return to the steps of Kazakhstan on the landing of our Soyuz spacecraft. When our capsule stops on those dessert flats, I will really be about 12,000 miles from the house, in the opposite direction of the earth. When he was still in space, it was written On Friday (April 18).
“I can take a picture for some time in the future, a crew is returning from Mars and after putting themselves in the orbit of low earth, they will pay attention to this blue jewelry below and say, ‘I am home,” he wrote.
Petit’s journey was almost not long or far as a trip to the red planet, but for many people who followed their “opportunity” performances and his amazing pictures of Earth and other places in space, it was no less attractive.
NASA’s astronaut and campaign 73 flight engineer Nicole Aarrs wrote, “Dawn Petit says goodbye today,” On social media network x On Saturday. “This is bittersweet because he had a wonderful mission and inspired many people when he was here.”
Petit, Ovachinin and Wagner’s trip home started from EDT (2157 GMT) at 5:57 pm on Saturday, as Russia’s Soyuz MS -26 spacecraft was uncontrolled from the station’s racewate mini -discharge module. About two and a half hours later, the vehicle demonstrated a dyerbit burn and shed its orbital and propulsion module, leaving the three crews back home to bring back home.
Orbit had the remaining ires, as well as NASA astronaut Anne McClane and more Johnny KimJacksa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Astronaut and Campaign 73 Commander Takua Onishi; And cosmonots Kiril Peskov, Sergei Raizikov and Alexi Zubritsky of Russian Federal Corporation Roskosomos.
On Earth, the Soyuz MS -26 and its crew was helped to get out of the capsule by the Russian Recovery Force and NASA medical personnel and to undergo quick investigation before flying on a helicopter for the staging city near Karganda, Kazakhstan. From there, Petit will ride on a NASA aircraft and return to Houston, while Ovachinin and Veger will depart for a training base in Russia’s Star City.
Petit’s personal science demo – including Drinking a zero-G cup He designed on the previous trip to the station and imagined thin ice wafers under polarized filters – he also helped hundreds of experiments and technology tests during his time as a campaign 71/72 crew.
Petit also helped to oversee the departure of SpaceX’s Crew -9 mission on the arrival of Crew -10 on the Dragon spacecraft “Freedom” and Dragon, as well as signus “SS Francis R.
Ovchinin and Vagner also participated in science experiments and conducted a 7-hour, 17-minute spacewalk to install an X-ray spectrometer on the outer part of the Zvezda service module. They were in place for the arrival of Soyuz MS-28 crew and MS-29 and MS-30 cargo ships as well as the departure of progress of MS-27 and MS-28.
It was the fourth spaceflights of Petit and Ovachinin and the second of Wagner. After landing on Saturday, Petit’s career in space is 590 days, 595 days in Ovachinin and Vagina in 416 days orbit.
Soyuz MS -26 was to fly since 1967 to launch 72nd Soyuz of Russia from 2000 and 155th to the International Space Station. In its 220 days of space, it traveled 93.3 million miles (150.2 million km) while circling the Earth 3,520 times.
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