After 186 days orbiting the Earth, Briton returns from spaceTim Peake returned to Earth yesterday at the halt of his six-month stay on the International Space Station. His journey home took residence in a craft that fell from a height of 410 kilometres and decelerated from 27600 km/h to a standstill in less than four hours. The 44-year-extinct astronaut described the trip as “the best ride I’ve been on ever”.
Peake was crammed into a tiny Soyuz capsule with two other astronauts – the American Tim Kopra and the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko – and ended up in a remote patch of the Kazakhstan steppe.
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Source: theguardian.com