A Russian, a Japanese and an American left the ISS with the football that could be used in the opening match of the World Cup.
The ISS participates in its own way at the Football World Cup. Sunday, June 3, a Russian, a Japanese and an American left the ISS and returned to Earth accompanied by a football that could be used in the opening match of the World Cup, mid-June in Moscow , according to Russian space authorities. Anton Chkaplerov, Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai landed at 12:39 GMT in a Soyuz MS-07 capsule near the town of Jezkazgan in the Kazakhstan steppe , after spending 168 days in orbit aboard International Space Station (ISS).
In a video broadcast live by Roscosmos, we see the capsule touching Earth and the cosmonaut Anton Chkaplerov get out first before being supported by the ground teams. "We are a little tired, but happy with what we have accomplished and happy to be back on Earth," he says in this video. Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai are now scheduled to travel to Houston, USA - via the Kazakh city of Karaganda - to perform medical tests.
Five months in space
In a video released Thursday by Roscosmos, Anton Chkaplerov and his colleague Oleg Artemyev were training aboard the ISS with an Adidas 18 football. According to the Russian news agency Tass, this ball should be used during the match. opening day of the World Cup in Moscow on June 14, although this information has not been confirmed by FIFA . The three men spent more than five months in space to conduct many scientific experiments.
Scott Tingle, who was on his first flight, even got out into space to replace the "hand" of a robotic arm on the station. Astronaut Norishige Kanai documented his trip to Japan on Twitter , where he said in January that he grew up nine centimeters a few weeks after arriving on the station. He then corrected his remarks, indicating that he had gained only two centimeters.
A cost of 100 billion dollars
According to the US space agency NASA , astronauts can gain up to 3% of their size in space, but return to normal size when they return to Earth. The laboratory of the International Space Station, a rare example of cooperation between Russia and the United States, has been in orbit since 1998, at a speed of 28,000 km / h. Sixteen countries are participating in the ISS, which has cost a total of $ 100 billion, mostly funded by the United States and Russia.
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