“Soyuz TMA-18M” with the crew returning to Earth undocked from the ISS – RIA Novosti

Mission Control Centre (Korolev), March 2 – RIA Novosti. “Soyuz TMA-18M” with the participants of the annual mission – Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko and Sergei Volkov, spent in orbit for six months, undocked from the ISS and headed for the Earth, told RIA news from Moscow Mission Control Center (MCC).

On board the ISS remained to work in anticipation of the arrival of change on Earth Timothy Kopra (US NASA), Timothy Peak (United Kingdom, ESA), and Yuri Malenchenko (Russia, Roscosmos). The next expedition will travel to the ISS on 19 March. In its structure will go into orbit Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka and US astronaut Jeffrey Williams.

Inclusion of ship engine braking is scheduled for 06.33 MSK. Sign in Earth’s atmosphere is expected at 07.03 MSK. Maximum overload 4G crew will test in 07.09 MSK. Landing of the descent capsule spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-18M” designated 07.25 MSK 147 kilometers from the city of Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan, the calculated data may vary slightly from the actual.

Scott Kelly set a record of staying on board the ISS astronauts among US October 16, 2015, when he made his 382 days in space. Twin brothers Kelly are participants of the experiment on the effect of long-term stays in space on the human body. On the ground, NASA experts are monitoring the Mark Kelly, to the example of the analysis of genetically identical organisms brothers to study the effect of the space environment on the human body.

Kelly brothers were born February 21, 1964 in the State of New Jersey. During the annual visit to the ISS Scott set a record for the total duration of stay in space, as well as the duration of a mission for the American astronaut.

Army and transport aircraft of the Central Military District (CVO) has relocated to Kazakhstan for the crew meeting manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-18M”. The search-and-rescue support landing “Union” involves about 200 troops, 12 helicopters Mi-8 with the special equipment on board, four AN-12 and AN-26 and 18 units of vehicles off-road.