Manned spacecraft "Union MS-15", on Board of which are Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg skripochka, NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan, and Jessica Meir, undocked from the International space station (ISS) and went to the Ground. Stream is on the website of Roscosmos.
After about 2.5 hours the engines of the ship should be included on the brake, then it will be a division into compartments, then it will enter the dense layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
Landing of the lander is planned for 08:16 GMT 147 kilometers Southeast of Zhezkazgan (Kazakhstan).
The crew of the "Union MS-15" will return to Earth on a background of pandemic coronavirus. In this regard, in particular, the evacuation of astronauts landing vehicle specialists search and rescue teams of the Central military district will be limited. As reported earlier, the press service of the district, it is necessary to exclude the possibility of infection of the crew "Union". After examination of the cosmonaut and astronauts will deliver helicopters at the operational airfield, where the crew will go to Moscow.
In addition, as reported previously TASS in the press service of the Russian cosmonaut training Center (TSPK), the number of specialists of the Federal air transport Agency, Roscosmos, Ministry of defense and other organizations involved in ensuring the landing of the crew of the "Union MS-15" will be limited to the protection of returning from coronavirus. All the experts, who arrived in Kazakhstan to ensure fitment, tested for the coronavirus. The CPC also reported that the second period of rehabilitation Violins after returning to Earth, which was planned for 18 may in the Krasnodar region, will be postponed to a later date due to pandemic coronavirus.
In earth orbit will continue to work with Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and John Wagner, as well as NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, who became the ISS commander.
