In the early hours of Sunday morning (Pacific Time), a Russian cosmonaut, NASA astronaut and a European Space Agency astronaut returned to Earth after a 6-month stay on the International Space Station (ISS). Oleg Kononenko, Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers landed safely on the Kazakhstan steppes after the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft fired its soft landing rockets, blasting a cloud of dust into the air. But before touchdown and after the violence of reentry, NASA photographer Bill Ingalls was able to photograph this beautiful aerial view of the Soyuz and deployed parachute above the clouds. What a ride that must have been.
Read more about the successful Soyuz landing on Discovery News.
Special thanks to NASA astronaut Nicole Stott (@Astro_Nicole) for tweeting this photo!
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That is a very beautiful aerial view taken there. I wish I was there to see the clouds. Anyway, it is good to know that these 3 different nations are working together in the field of aerospace development. I’ve always been a big fan of space and NASA and I also believe that different nations shouldn’t have to be competing when it comes to this “space exploration race”. We should all be working together on this.