Waspie_Dwarf Posted March 19, 2013 #1 Share Posted March 19, 2013 ISS Cosmonauts Model Manually Controlled Landing on Mars ZVYOZDNY GORODOK, March 19 (RIA Novosti) - For the first time, two Russian cosmonauts simulated a manually controlled landing from the orbit on Mars after they spent half a year in the space, a deputy head of the Russian Space Training Center said on Monday.Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin, who returned from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday after spending there 143 days, used a centrifuge at the Space Training Center in Moscow Region’s Star City, to successfully imitate a manually controlled landing on Mars. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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