Tim Peake comes back to Earth with a bump – Soyuz touchdown ends astronaut’s incredible journey
by Robin McKie from on (#1HN3K)
After 186 days orbiting the Earth, Briton returns from space
Tim Peake returned to Earth yesterday at the end of his six-month stay on the International Space Station. His journey home took place in a craft that fell from a height of 410 kilometres and decelerated from 27,600 km/h to a standstill in less than four hours. The 44-year-old astronaut described the trip as "the best ride I've been on ever".
Peake was crammed into a tiny Soyuz capsule with two other astronauts - the American Tim Kopra and the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko - and ended up in a remote patch of the Kazakhstan steppe.
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