{"id":12157,"date":"2020-10-21T23:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-station-crew-preps-for-re-entry-landing\/"},"modified":"2020-10-21T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:42:28","slug":"space-station-crew-preps-for-re-entry-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-station-crew-preps-for-re-entry-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Space station crew preps for re-entry, landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STORY WRITTEN FOR&nbsp;CBS NEWS&nbsp;&amp; USED WITH PERMISSION<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48101\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48101\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/49838997331_58c1a43879_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/49838997331_58c1a43879_k.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/49838997331_58c1a43879_k-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/49838997331_58c1a43879_k-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/49838997331_58c1a43879_k-678x542.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin, and flight engineer Ivan Vagner are scheduled to depart the International Space Station and return to Earth. Credit: NASA\/Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One week after two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut arrived at the International Space Station for a six-month stay, the three crew members they\u2019re replacing packed up their Soyuz spacecraft for a fiery plunge back to Earth Wednesday evening to close out a 196-day mission.<\/p>\n<p>NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, the outgoing commander of Expedition 63, turned the station over to cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov Tuesday, handing him a ceremonial \u201ckey\u201d to the lab complex. Ryzhikov, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Kate Rubins arrived at the station last Wednesday aboard their own Soyuz ferry ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpedition 63 has gone by super fast,\u201d said Cassidy, a former Navy SEAL. \u201cWe joke around that there\u2019s only Mondays and Fridays and it\u2019s a big blur of time between.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy\u2019s departure comes less than two weeks before the 20th anniversary of the first station crew\u2019s arrival on Nov. 2, 2000. Since then, the lab has been continuously staffed by rotating international astronaut-cosmonaut crews.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet Tuesday, Cassidy noted the lab\u2019s first commander was also a veteran SEAL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years ago my astro-SEAL mentor, Captain Bill Shepherd, assumed command of Expedition 1,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cNow we are book-ending those two decades of manned ISS operations with @us_navyseals astronauts in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1318613477070573569&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fspaceflightnow.com%2F2020%2F10%2F21%2Fspace-station-crew-preps-for-re-entry-landing%2F&amp;sessionId=a59330a38af8e47d309273b04600cff6da197ff5&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1318613477070573569\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782696523586511917=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It has been an honor to have command of @Space_Station for Expedition 63.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago my astro-SEAL mentor, Captain Bill Shepherd, assumed command of Expedition 1. Now we are book-ending those two decades of manned ISS operations with @us_navyseals astronauts in space. pic.twitter.com\/ZJiWd2jtfM<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Cassidy (@Astro_SEAL) October 20, 2020<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, Soyuz MS-16\/62S commander Anatoly Ivanishin and flight engineer Ivan Vagner were launched to the station on April 9. They planned to undock at 7:32 p.m. EDT Wednesday to begin the three-and-a-half hour trip back to Earth and a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMama, I\u2019m coming home!\u201d Vagner tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1318860874006908930&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fspaceflightnow.com%2F2020%2F10%2F21%2Fspace-station-crew-preps-for-re-entry-landing%2F&amp;sessionId=a59330a38af8e47d309273b04600cff6da197ff5&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1318860874006908930\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782696523586511917=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2018Mama, I\u2019m coming home!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Tonight we, the #ISS-63 crew are returning to Earth. This was a busy and very interesting flight! Hope that was interesting!<\/p>\n<p>More detailed \u2014 https:\/\/t.co\/McfMJoEqsv (in English, see the first comment) pic.twitter.com\/a8FOC38RCL<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ivan Vagner (@ivan_mks63) October 21, 2020<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After donning their pressure suits and moving a safe distance away from the station, the Soyuz crew planned to monitor an automated 4-minute 40-second rocket firing starting at 10 p.m., slowing the ship by about 286 mph to drop the far side of the orbit into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty five minutes later, the Soyuz spacecraft\u2019s central crew module was expected to slam into the discernible atmosphere at an altitude of about 62 miles, enduring the scorching heat of re-entry before deploying a large parachute and setting to touchdown near the town of Dzhezkazgan at 10:55 p.m. (8:55 a.m. Thursday local time).<\/p>\n<p>As always, Russian recovery forces, flight surgeons and NASA personnel were deployed near the landing site to help the station fliers out of their cramped descent module as they begin re-adjusting to the unfamiliar tug of gravity after 196 days four hours and 13 minutes off the planet.<\/p>\n<p>After a quick round of medical checks, the crew was to be flown by helicopter to Dzhezkazgan where Cassidy planned to board a waiting NASA jet for the long flight back to Houston. Ivanishin and Vagner were expected to head for Star City near Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Including two previous flights, Cassidy\u2019s total time in space will total 378 days, moving him up to fifth on the list of most experienced NASA astronauts. Ivanishin, also completing his third flight, will have logged 476 days in space while Vagner was completing his first space flight.<\/p>\n<p>During their stay aboard the space lab, Cassidy\u2019s crew welcomed three unpiloted cargo ships, one Soyuz crew \u2014 Ryzhikov, Kud-Sverchkov and Rubins \u2013 and the first piloted SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy completed four spacewalks during his time aloft, totaling 23 hours and 37 minutes, pushing his overall total to nearly 55 hours across 10 excursions.<\/p>\n<p>Ryzhikov, Kud-Sverchkov and Rubins will have the station to themselves until mid November when NASA plans to launch a three-man one-woman crew to the lab aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon ferry ship, boosting the station\u2019s crew to seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STORY WRITTEN FOR&nbsp;CBS NEWS&nbsp;&amp; USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin, and flight engineer Ivan Vagner are scheduled to depart the International Space Station and return to Earth. Credit: NASA\/Roscosmos One week after two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut arrived at the International Space Station for a six-month stay, the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2032,2033,2034,1545,717,2035,1771,190],"class_list":["post-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anatoly-ivanishin","tag-chris-cassidy","tag-expedition-63","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-international-space-station","tag-ivan-vagner","tag-kazakhstan","tag-nasa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}