Russian Cosmonaut Calls Space Mission A Success
Posted on: Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 06:00 CST
ASTANA. Oct 28 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko is pleased with the results of his space mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
"The stay in the station was fairly smooth and the equipment never failed. I would say the mission was a success," he told a news conference at Astana airport on Tuesday.
Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Edward Lu and European Space Agency astronaut Pedro Duque had been flown to the airport from Arkalyk, following the safe landing of their Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft earlier in the day.
Astana City Hall officials and Kazakhstan's first cosmonaut Tokhtar Aubakirov, now a presidential adviser, welcomed the men at the airport.
Malenchenko said he carried out numerous research projects, in particular in geophysics, biology and medicine, during the space mission. He and Lu stayed 184 days in the International Space Station.
Duque's stay on the station lasted only 10 days, during which he studied the behavior of biological cells in zero gravity and created materials that can be made only in zero gravity.
Malenchenko was able to move unaided, while Lu was supported under his arms. Lu was present at the news conference but made no comments.
The three men will fly to Star City outside Moscow later in the day.
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