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and now we're receiving our first video

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from the landing site uh you can see uh

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personnel uh bundled up against uh the

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chill of an early saturday morning on

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the step of kazakhstan uh they have

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already erected uh that stand around the

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soyuz vehicle that landed upright

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we believe the landing occurred about 25

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26 minutes ago but we don't have an

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unofficial touchdown time for you we're

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estimating about 10 10 pm central time

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this uh the first video from the search

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and recovery forces courtesy of the

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russian federal space agency at the

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landing site you can see the soyuz

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descent module upright

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as

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the search and recovery forces and rsc

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and nergia personnel uh begin the

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process of opening the top hatch uh

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along with the extraction of the crew

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we're waiting to hear further

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information as to how the crew will be

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dispositioned whether

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there will be an opportunity for them to

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sit for a while in reclining chairs

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or whether or not they'll be uh

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brought immediately to these helicopters

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that did make it uh on the ground for an

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expedited uh flight back to kustanai and

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now we're looking at the first of the

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crew members being extracted from the

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vehicle

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we believe that that is uh should be the

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let's be careful

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foreign

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and you're looking at kevin ford the

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expedition 34 commander who was the

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second crew member to be extracted from

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the soyuz vehicle

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being bundled up against the extreme

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frigid temperatures on a saturday

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morning at the landing site

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to ford's right is soyuz commander

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alec novitskiy evgeny tarelkin will be

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the final crew member to be extracted

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kevin ford uh completing his second

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flight into space and a total of 158

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days

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in space on his two missions

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the first uh as pilot of the shuttle

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discovery on the sts-128 mission that

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flew in august and september of 2009 a

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14-day flight

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of assembly and logistics at the

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ford novitskiy and tarelkin launched

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on october 23rd of last year

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from site 31 at the baikonur cosmodrome

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in kazakhstan arriving at the

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international space station for a

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docking at the poisk module on october

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all of the crew members have been

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slide down

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um

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russian

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search and recovery forces uh attending

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uh to the crew members there's a thumbs

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up signal from tarelkin

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russian nurses also on scene to conduct

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some very preliminary medical checks of

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the crew but all three crew members

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certainly appeared to be smiling and in

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good spirits as they were all the way

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through their increment of almost five

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we still do not have an unofficial

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touchdown time for the soyuz

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based on the voice calls that we

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received we can only speculate that the

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touchdown time was around 1008 to 10 10

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p.m central time that's the best

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information we have at this point

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and so after a few minutes in the

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reclining chair to begin an acclimation

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to earth's gravity

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oleg nowitzki the soyuz commander begins

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to be brought and it appears as if he

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will be brought

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towards one of the helicopters that

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landed for an expedited return

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kevin ford now being bundled up and

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being hoisted uh to be brought

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we believe to uh one of those

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helicopters that were able to land on

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the ground and tarelkin now will follow

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will you carry evgeny yes i will

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so uh the search and recovery forces

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operating uh with dispatch uh wasting

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little time against the inclement

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weather conditions at the landing site

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uh

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that deteriorated over the past two or

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three hours

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this is mission control houston

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this is a replay a video shot inside one

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of the search and recovery helicopters

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of the descent of the soyuz vehicle

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toward its landing site

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below you can see the thick clouds and

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and the fog that hindered

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the landing of all of the search and

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recovery helicopters uh to the best of

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our knowledge only two of those

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helicopters actually landed to expedite

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the extraction of the crew which

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crew members are being loaded back on to

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the search and recovery helicopters uh

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to depart the landing site

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for uh what we believe will be kustanai

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kazakhstan the prime staging city but we

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do not have that confirmed again this

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video showing the soyuz descending under

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the parachute disappearing into the

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thick clouds where it landed just about

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right on target uh at what we believe

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was a landing time almost an hour ago of

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about 10 08 p.m central time although we

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have not received any