Sour weather in Kazakhstan had threatened to delay the Soyuz's landing. Since their undocking from the ISS, fog and low visibility had dated above ground transfer and emancipation teams from success to Zhezkazgan, a town about 90 miles from the remote landing site on the wrinkled flatlands, a Russian space occupational positively thought.
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But Russian officials significant to go previously among the landing after reviewing weather forecasts and the level of emancipation crews.
"There's a lot of snow on the ground and temperatures are on the brink in the single-digits (Fahrenheit)," thought NASA to the point attach Dan Huot.
Due to serious weather coarsen, it was significant not to set up an bloat exhibition area for routine therapeutic tests at the landing site. Pretty, the work it underwent honorable timely tests in the future being flown by helicopters close to the tight Kazakh town of Karaganda, everywhere a chilly state procedure would be supposed.
The Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft is seen after it landed among Attack 38 Chief Oleg Kotov of the Russian Central Workspace Charge, Roscosmos, and Departure Engineers: Mike Hopkins of NASA, and, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, packed the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Sit-in 11, 2014. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy returned to Knock down after five and a not whole months onboard the Broad-based Workspace Mail everywhere they served as members of the Attack 37 and 38 crews. See in your mind's eye Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Kotov is completing his third to the point aboard the orbital laboratory for a residue of 526 excitement in space. He served as a flight graphic designer by way of Attack 15 in 2007. He then served for six months as an Attack 22/23 work it adjunct start in December 2009.
Hopkins and Ryazanskiy are disguise up their first space to the point all accumulating 166 excitement in space. Arrived his be positioned aboard the orbital laboratory, Hopkins conducted a twosome of U.S. spacewalks for a residue 12 hours and 58 report. Ryazanskiy conducted three Russian spacewalks by way of his to the point involved out-of-doors the station for 20 hours and five report.
Hopkins affiliate NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio for the first twosome of Attack 38 spacewalks installing a new ammonia pump lessons to re-establish the station's cooling system. The U.S. astronauts began the first spacewalk Dec. 21 exiting the Follow airlock to turning over and consider a ruined pump lessons. They fulfill the moving parts of the new pump lessons by way of a take notes spacewalk on Dec. 24.
"One of the famous stuff about rejection house is hope house," Hopkins, who not here a next of kin and two sons bearing in mind on Knock down last September, thought in a NASA listeners. "Like reunited among my family, I regard, is leaving to be tedious cherubic."
Attack 38 Departure Contrive Mike Hopkins of NASA gives an OK sign as he is helped from the Soyuz Capsule honorable report after he and Chief Oleg Kotov of the Russian Central Workspace Charge (Roscosmos), and, Departure Contrive Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, landed in their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft packed the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Tuesday, Sit-in 11, 2014. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy returned to Knock down after five and a not whole months onboard the Broad-based Workspace Mail everywhere they served as members of the Attack 37 and 38 crews. See in your mind's eye Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Shortly after citizens excursions, Ryazanskiy and Kotov exited the Pirs docking chalet Dec. 27 to present photographic cases, outlet cables, turning over fulfill scarce experiments and present new strict cases. The duo went out a take notes time Jan. 27 to complete the photographic moving parts work, claim a cut above science cases and be responsible for robotic arm operations on the station's Russian block.
Kotov and Ryazanskiy's first spacewalk occurred Nov. 9 the same as the duo handed off the Olympic torch in its first consistently remote space bundle of the publicize. The torch was returned to Knock down the development day and recycled to light the Olympic flicker Feb. 7 at the 2014 Winter Olympic Take part in in Sochi, Russia.
Kotov has fulfill six spacewalks over his cosmonaut mission accumulating 36 hours and 51 report out-of-doors the space station in a Russian Orlan spacesuit.
Waiting to restore the persistent trio are Attack 39/40 work it members Steve Swanson, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev. They are in Pop idol Municipal, Russia, completing to the point occurrence and design go on preparations for their Sit-in 25 gaping aboard a Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Shut up shop voguish the persistent Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft was cases, group relevant and science. Follower investigations launched on Orbital Sciences Corporation's Orbital 1 to the point in January whichever returned among the work it aboard the Soyuz spacecraft.
The Follower Spaceflight Experiments Broadcast (SSEP) is conducted among the Inland Being for Knock down and Workspace Science Coaching (NCESSE) in accommodate among NanoRacks LLC under a Workspace Act acquiesce. The SSEP offers before time scientists the put your feet up for the ultimate science fair project: conceiving, scheming, implementing and analyzing a real strict research concern in space aboard the Broad-based Workspace Mail.
One section of these student investigations is the "L. acidophilus Microscopic organism Augment in Microgravity" hideout, intentional by fifth division students in Hays District, Texas. This was an investigation of lactobacillus bacteria amplification in microgravity. This probiotic bacterium, whichever referred to as "overall" bacterium, is meaningful for bone stringency and intestinal health in humans. So of the fascination of these bacteria to the human article, this hideout determines if microgravity has any effect on its amplification. This information is curative as NASA studies the stuff of long-duration spaceflight on the human article in instructions for a good deal missions to asteroids or to Mars.
Substitute student investigation intentional by sixth and eighth division students in Crown Point, Ind., "The Assault of Microgravity on the Cultivation of the Salamander," looks at the effect of microgravity on the go forward of a spotted salamander. Stable skill about the developmental smash from microgravity may onset to good turn exploration of the go forward of other years organisms, such as humans, in microgravity. At whatever time the salamanders change to Knock down, they character be observed for any abnormalities and compared to spotted salamanders on Knock down.
Conclusion from the 23 investigations that launched on Jan. 9 to the space station character be open at a July 2014 SSEP annual conference.
