Breaking News!!! Russian Capaule just brought back our Astronauts with the Russians.

DOOM!!!

Need more info + link. Also is that ALL the occupants? And why no more news on this, or is it just in?

I would like to know if ALL of them were brought back

I tried posting a article by reuters but they are banned by GLP.....

Last Edited by Sanger Paranormal on 09/16/2011 11:48 AM

Three crewmembers left the International Space Station for Earth on Thursday while their replacements remain delayed by an investigation into a Russian launch accident.

Former station commander Andrey Borisenko, cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev and U.S. astronaut Ron Garan sealed themselves inside one of two Russian Soyuz capsules parked at the outpost at 5:30 p.m. EDT/(2130 GMT), closing out a five-month mission.

Three hours later, the Soyuz slipped out its berthing port at the station, a recently completed $100 billion project of 16 nations. Touchdown in Kazakhstan is set for midnight EDT/(0400 GMT) on Friday.

"It's hard to believe it's time," NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, the new station commander, said during a farewell ceremony broadcast on NASA Television.

"We don't want to see you go. We like the company," he said. "We love the friendship. We've lived together closer than families in many ways. We wish you all the best."

The returning crew's replacements -- NASA flight engineer Dan Burbank and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin -- were scheduled to arrive September 24 but the flight was delayed following an August 24 launch accident involving an unmanned Russian cargo ship bound for the station.

The upper-stage motor that failed on the Russian Progress rocket, causing it to burn up in the atmosphere and shower debris across part of Siberia, is virtually identical to one used to fly crew to the station on Soyuz rockets.

The new crew is now scheduled to launch on November 14 and arrive at the station two days later.

The departure of Borisenko, Samokutyaev and Garan will leave Fossum, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Russia's Sergei Volkov, on their own for an extended two-month period.

They will have little time to prepare the new crew to take over the station before heading home themselves around November 22.

The Progress launch failure is believed to have been caused by blockage in a kerosene fuel line. Russia plans to fly another cargo ship on October 30 before launching the next station crew.

With the retirement of the U.S. space shuttles this summer, crews can reach the station only aboard Russian rockets. China, the only other country able to fly people into orbit, is not a partner in the space station.

The current U.S. plan is to pay Russia to fly NASA astronauts, at a cost of more than $50 million per person, until U.S. companies are able to do so.

No. Just the 3 that were scheduled to come back.

Fossum-USA
Furukawa-Japan
Volkov-Russia

Those 3 are still up there as planned. Then in November 3 more will come up, as scheduled.

They smelled Elenini's ass first hand.

SOMETHING IS COMING OMG!!!

So they have more than one capsule for the others to "escape" if they need to?????


Me thinks no mo' spaceman stay home...

Last Edited by S.O.S. on 09/16/2011 01:32 AM

Yeah, we have to hitch a ride now that Obama has crippled the space program.

We really need that money for his contributors fake green companies, donchaknow!

They didn't abandon the ISS, there are still 3 people up there.

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Really?

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