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this is mission control houston we are

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now receiving live video of the soyuz

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tma-03m spacecraft it is descending

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elegantly under its shoot

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everything is on track the weather down

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at the landing site

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mostly sunny skies temperatures in the

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low 80s light winds out of the north now

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descending into a cloud bank

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at the time that the final

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series of helicopters left karaganda

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about two hours ago to begin

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moving toward the landing site

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there was some light rain in the

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karaganda area but that's well to the

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northeast of the landing site

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you can see that the weather at the

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landing site or in the close proximity

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of the landing site is good

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landing is scheduled just 10 minutes

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from now

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we now of course are watching live video

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courtesy of roscosmos the russian

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federal space agency of the final

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minutes of the descent of the soyuz

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tma-3

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03m spacecraft

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station houston on one no response

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required we know you don't have k.u just

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wanted to give you an update 29 s is

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under shoot now and we're watching them

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drifting down to its landing site

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time to touch down about nine minutes

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a dozen russian mi8 helicopters with

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russian search and recovery force

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personnel

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rsc inergia technical specialists

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nasa support personnel and european

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space agency support personnel

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now flying in that racetrack pattern

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that we talked about earlier around the

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prime landing site

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so far so good it looks like the soyuz

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vehicle is headed for an on target

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everything continuing to look uh

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in great shape with the soyuz vehicle uh

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once again you're watching its descent

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under its main parachute toward its

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landing target to just to the southeast

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of the town of jezkasgan in southeast

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the undocking of the soyuz from the

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international space station's rassvet

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module occurred on time just before 11

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48 pm central time on saturday night

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the soyuz

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conducted two separation burns to move

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to a distance of 12 kilometers away from

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the station

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at which point uh at 2 19 a.m just under

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an hour ago

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the soyuz engines fired for four minutes

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and 15 seconds and a deorbit burn a

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deceleration retrograde maneuver to

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begin the trip back home into the

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earth's atmosphere the three sections of

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the soyuz vehicle separated uh perfectly

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at 2 47 am central time followed by the

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deployment of the shoots 15 minutes

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setting the stage for what you're

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watching

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as of the soyuz descends under mostly

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clear skies to a landing site

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in a very desolate area of southeast

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kazakhstan

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search and recovery forces are flying

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overhead accompanied by two antonoff

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fixed-wing aircraft that are relaying

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data and telemetry from the soyuz

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spacecraft back to the flight control

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on a sunday afternoon in southeast

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kazakhstan the view of the soyuz tma-03m

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spacecraft continuing to drift gently

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back toward earth

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now just four minutes away from its

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scheduled touchdown

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its main shoot having been deployed on

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time a few minutes ago

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all of the soyuz system is in good shape

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we are not hearing uh communications at

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the moment from the crew but the search

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and recovery forces uh will be uh in

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contact with the crew

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momentarily and are continuing to relay

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updates to the russian flight control

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team of the russian mission control

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foreign

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continuing uh to receive stunning views

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of the

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soyuz tma-03m and the expedition 31 crew

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as they gently descend

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this last couple of minutes or so back

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to their landing site

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search and recovery personnel are all in

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place hovering around the prime landing

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site flying in a circular pattern just

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waiting for that capsule to touch down

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at which point the russian mi8

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helicopters will begin to land in

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proceed in two minutes

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okay

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we're about a minute and a half away

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from touchdown

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radio beacon signals from the soyuz

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being picked up by the antonoff fixed

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wing aircraft

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we haven't had any voice communication

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from the crew recently but

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all reports prior to that

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showed an excellent descent everything

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nominal all soyuz vehicle functions in

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should be approaching touchdown

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with any luck at all we may be able to

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see the soft landing engines fire just a

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and you can see one of those uh search

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and recovery helicopters once again that

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helicopter part of a dozen such russian

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touchdown

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3 14 and 48 seconds am central time

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you saw the soft landing engines fire

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just a split second before the soyuz hit

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the ground southeast of jessica has gone

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a bull's-eye touchdown

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landing once again at 3 14 and 48

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seconds central time 14 and 48 seconds

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p.m at the landing site in kazakhstan

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the expedition 31 crew oleg kononenko