On September 21 last year, the Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which carried Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prpkopyev and Dmitriy Petelin, as well as US astronaut Frank Rubio to the International Space Station (ISS), returned to Earth without a crew. returned.
Soyuz MS-22, which left the station with 218 kilograms of cargo and 100 kilograms of garbage consisting of cosmonaut suits and defective batteries, as well as the materials and documents belonging to the experiments carried out on the ISS, successfully landed in the city of Jezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 14.45 CEST.
While wide security measures were taken at the place where the spacecraft would land, helicopters, armored vehicles, first aid vehicles and vehicles carrying experts waited for the spacecraft to land in a wide area. The spacecraft, whose parachutes were opened recently for its landing, was also monitored from the control center in Moscow, the capital of Russia.
LAST YEAR, THE GÖKSTONE WAS Slammed
Russian experts made their first examinations for the Soyuz MS-22, which was damaged due to a meteorite impact in December last year and returned to Earth today without carrying a crew for safety reasons. Roscosmos experts stated that the damage to the radiator section of the Soyuz was not a major damage according to the first determinations, and announced that work would be done to repair the Soyuz MS-22 again. (UAV)