Best of luck to him once he's down, muscle atrophy has to be a worry and getting used to gravity again won't be much fun.
Record-breaking cosmonaut comes back down to Earth
International Space Station Expedition 44 commander Gennady Padalka is due to depart the orbiting outpost tomorrow, when he'll have clocked up a record total of 879 days in space. Padalka aboard the ISS. Pic: NASA Record-breaking Padalka aboard the ISS. Pic credit: NASA The 57-year-old Russian will be accompanied in the …
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Thursday 10th September 2015 15:10 GMT Little Mouse
According to my ISS tracker App, the ISS will be flying over my gaff whilst the capsule is docked, but it's not going to be bright enough for me to photograph.
I've taken a couple of snaps of the ISS in the past where the basic shape of the structure is clear to see, but have any commentards managed to do the same whilst a caspule was docked? Were there any visible differences?
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