Expedition 43 Crew Returns Home
Expedition 43 Crew Returns to Earth (with video)
“Three crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth Thursday after a 199-day mission. Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA, Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) touched down at 9:44 a.m. EDT (7:44 p.m., Kazakh time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.”
A single parachute makes me nervous.
Failed parachute Soyuz 1:
http://www.americaspace.org…
Failed parachute Apollo 15:
http://www.apollomissionpho…
Gemini and Mercury had single chutes.