Russian Space Official Says Landing in Kazakh Steppes Went Smoothly
Posted on: Friday, 30 April 2004, 06:00 CDT
Text of report by Russian NTV on 30 April
[Presenter] A Soyuz capsule landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan early this morning. It brought back the eighth expedition of the International Space Station - cosmonauts Aleksandr Kaleri and Michael Foale. Dutchman Andre Kuipers, who represented the European Space Agency, also returned with them: he spent nine days on the station on his own scientific mission.
They have already left the capsule and undergone medical examinations: Kaleri, Foale and Kuipers feel well.
The Mission Control Centre in Korolev near Moscow followed the operation. Specialists from the centre said that the landing took place in a regular operating mode and concerns about helium leakage from one of the Soyuz spacecraft's engines have not been confirmed.
[Vladimir Solovyev, flight chief of the Mission Control Centre, captioned, briefing journalists] We carried out a number of operations which helped us save gas [helium] reserves. We shut the valves in advance and we did not issue a command to break one of the valves. But all this was just regular exploitation of our system.
[c/r 030014-030116] [Video shows cosmonauts leaving the capsule and drinking tea, a control mission centre, a briefing]
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