Welcome home, Paolo!
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station.
Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27 since December. Paolo’s MagISStra mission, the third long mission by a European astronaut on the Station, came to end at 04:27 CEST (02:27 GMT) on the steppes of Kazakhstan as the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft fired its retrorockets for a soft landing.
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station.
Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27 since December. Paolo’s MagISStra mission, the third long mission by a European astronaut on the Station, came to end at 04:27 CEST (02:27 GMT) on the steppes of Kazakhstan as the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft fired its retrorockets for a soft landing.
Paolo and crewmates Soyuz Commander Dmitri Kondratyev and NASA’s Cady Coleman boarded the Soyuz on Monday night and undocked from the Station’s nadir
Rassvet port at 23:35 CEST (21:35 GMT).
Glad to see that it was a safe return, wellcome home!!:D
Bentornato Paolo,vedo dal tuo volto provato che il rientro non è stato una passeggiata!
It's nice to see good news like this. Welcome home.
grande Paolo ben tornato !!!!
@UncleKennybobs no, each ISS expedition spends about six months in space. The record is more than 365 days in space by russian cosmonaut on Mir
bentornato a Paolo Nespoli, seguivamo le tue imprese che hai saputo condire a volte con simpatia e freschezza. Paolo Nespoli ha doti da comunicatore che non ho riscontrato in Roberto Vittori. Tutte le mattine mi collegavo con il sito della NASA per vedere nuovi video e anche per fare il tracking della stazione dove si trovava ora lo sto facendo di meno non me ne voglia Roberto Vittori.
@UncleKennybobs Maybe its a possible experiment in combination with the Mars500 studies. You know judging the effects of long-term microgravity. He really seems very tired.
Paolo looked really ill sounds like he vomited at: 3:57 He performed some outstanding work at the ISS glad to see him make home safely.
Bentornati! Quando era visibile salutavamo sempre il passaggio della stazione spaziale e l'abbiamo vista anche ieri sera. Ciao Paolo!!!
Is there a video of the interior while ascending? This phase is possibly more dramatic and harder than the way out!!
well done