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September 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
During his stay at the orbital station, Padalka conducted a six-hour spacewalk
on Aug. 20 to relocate a crane, launch a small science satellite and install
micrometeoroid shields on the space station’s Zvezda command module.
He and fellow crew members Acaba and Revin were carried over to autograph the
Soyuz, scorched black by re-entry, to be displayed in a Russian provincial
museum.
The crew returned after spending 123 days in orbit aboard the International
Space Station, a $100 billion research complex involving 15 countries and
orbiting 240 miles (385km) above Earth.
The mission was shorter than the usual six months after launch delays in order
to ready a new spaceship to replace the initial Soyuz craft, which was
cracked during pressure tests.
Moscow hopes Monday’s smooth landing will help to ease concerns over relying
solely on Russia to service the ISS following a string of recent mishaps in
its space programme.
“Everything is to cheer today,” Russian space agency chief Vladimir
Popovkin told reporters at Mission Control in Moscow.
“Padalka, Revin and Acaba are feeling well, and they will all go home
today.”
Three other International Space Station crew members – veteran Russian
cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese
astronaut Akihiko Hoshide – remain in orbit.
They are scheduled to be joined by another trio – Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitsky
and Yevgeny Tarelkin – due to blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan next month.
That mission was scheduled to launch on October 15 but will be delayed by
about a week due to a technical glitch with equipment aboard the Soyuz,
Popovkin said.
“We’ve had a worry over one of the devices. We decided to change it,
test it again and so the launch has been put off by one week,” Popovkin
said.
The Soviet Union put the first satellite and the first man in space, but
Russia’s space programme has suffered a series of humiliating setbacks in
recent months that industry veterans blame on a decade of crimped budgets
and a brain drain.
While none of the mishaps have threatened crews, they have raised worries over
Russia’s reliability, cost billions in satellite losses and dashed Moscow’s
dreams to end a more than two-decade absence from deep-space exploration.
Since the retirement of the US space shuttles last year, the United States is
dependent on Russia to fly astronauts at a costs to the nation of $60
million per person.
Source: agencies
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