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Topic:Soyuz TMA-12M mission to the space station
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The homebound trio will orbit Earth twice before the Soyuz fires its deorbit engines at 8:30 p.m. CDT sending the spacecraft on its way home. About 28 minutes later, the Soyuz spacecraft will separate into three sections with the descent module, sandwiched in between the orbital module and instrumentation/propulsion module, carrying the crew home.

The descent module will enter the atmosphere about 3 minutes later. The other two modules will burn up in the atmosphere.

Two pilot parachutes will deploy first extracting the drogue chute to begin slowing the Soyuz' descent. The main chute will then deploy in stages ultimately covering an area of 1,000 meters.

Finally, less than a meter above the ground, rockets will fire to soften the landing as the Soyuz touches down in the steppe of Kazakhstan at 9:23 p.m. CDT (0223 GMT Sept. 11).

Robert PearlmancollectSPACE
Soyuz TMA-12M returns space station trio and space whiskey to Earth

Two cosmonauts, an astronaut, and the makings for a stiff drink have landed safely back on Earth, returning from the International Space Station (ISS) to the steppe of Kazakhstan.

The crew of Russia's Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft, Steve Swanson of NASA and cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, wrapped up 169 days in space as their capsule reentered Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday (Sep. 10). Descending under a parachute and slowed by braking thrusters, the Soyuz touched down at 9:23 p.m. CDT (0223 GMT) to the southeast of the remote Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan.

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