Hazza Al Mansouri will leave the International Space Station for a return flight to Earth at 11:35 am and is expected to arrive in Kazakhstan at 2:59 pm UAE time. Hazza Al Mansouri, who was launched to the International Space Station last week aboard the Russian spacecraft «Soyuz MS15», in a historic moment, and after spending eight days aboard the station, Mansouri returns to Earth, today, after participating in many scientific experiments ( 16) experience, and captured many Earth aerial photos, videos.
Mansouri will leave the International Space Station aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS12, which will fly to Earth at 11:35 am, and is expected to land in Kazakhstan at 2:59 pm UAE time.
Mansouri will return to Earth, along with US astronaut Nick Haig and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Oshinin, and their spacecraft will land in Kazakhstan.
The Russian spacecraft, Soyuz MS12, consists of three parts: the orbital unit, the docking unit, and the landing unit. On its return to Earth, the first and second separates and burns in the atmosphere, leaving the latter carrying the astronauts.
Preparation to return to the ground begins one day before the vehicle detaches from the station; the crew conducts tests on the navigation and navigation systems, after which they prepare to enter them, and the gates that connect them to the station are closed, with leakage checks before giving full readiness signal, and when ensuring the safety and operation All the equipment inside the vehicle, the commander begins to disconnect it from the station at a very slow speed, and pioneers who reside at the station monitor the status and stability of the vehicle; through an external camera installed on «Soyuz MS12».
When the vehicle reaches an altitude of about 120 kilometers from the surface of the Earth, the stage of the "entry interface" begins, in which the vehicle has eliminated two-thirds of its mass, and its contact with the atmosphere begins to heat up its outer surface, at which point (half an hour before landing). The crew slows down, then the vehicle starts to land at 230 meters per second, and its speed is gradually reduced to a few meters per second.
Fifteen minutes before landing, the deployment phase of the umbrellas begins.
In the final stage of the landing, a giant canopy is launched with an area of 10,767 square meters, which controls the angle and degree of descent of the vehicle, in addition to slowing down its movement significantly to seven meters per second, and seconds before the main landing three small engines start to work; However, according to the experience of many astronauts, hitting the spacecraft is similar to a car accident.
After landing, the spacecraft is positioned by two satellites, a team of specialized rescuers rush to the place, and the parachute ropes are cut to prevent the capsule being pulled by the wind, the spacecraft's valves open the spacecraft, and the astronauts are helped out of the spacecraft.