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Title Welcome home, Paolo!
Produced 24/05/2011
Length 00:05:32
Language English
Footage Type Exterior shot
Copyright ESA
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ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station.
Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27 since December. Paolo’s MagISStra mission, the third long mission by a European astronaut on the Station, came to end at 04:27 CEST (02:27 GMT) on the steppes of Kazakhstan as the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft fired its retrorockets for a soft landing.
Paolo and crewmates Soyuz Commander Dmitri Kondratyev and NASA's Cady Coleman boarded the Soyuz on Monday night and undocked from the Station’s nadir Rassvet port at 23:35 CEST (21:35 GMT).

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The setting is apt for European human spaceflight. Like an ungrateful parasite, sucking American expertise, hitching a Russian lift, landing in some fallow back garden. Then claim such absurd fanciful notions as being a leading space faring nation, when if truth be told - lack the balls to act alone, instead opting to wallow in delusions of grandeur and celebrate banal mediocrity.
- slice of cake please!

Richard | 19:18 GMT | 13.12.2011

Respeito muito os russos pela Soyus, mas me parece que ela debilita em muito os astronautas, é muito tranco na reentrada, já veículos como o Onibus Espacial americano, parece dar mais tranquilidade aos astronautas nesses retornos à terra. Parabéns ao Paolo à ESA e a toda a tripulação.

Mario | 13:08 GMT | 22.06.2011

Wish we have more missions in Europe. Congratulations for the few participants!! good job!
From Spain

Borja | 18:44 GMT | 15.06.2011

I agree with Franco: Paolo seems to be quite weakened by the voyage inside the Soyuz. Great document, thank you!

Emanuele | 14:13 GMT | 12.06.2011

Look on the bright side - its a chance for Europe to wave her little flags and "say" - we can do it too (courtesy of USA and Russia)
;)

Lorcan | 11:04 GMT | 11.06.2011

I agree with Tom. It looks awful! A crowd of amateurs almost manage to "drop" Cady before some "big" guy carries her to the "wheelchair". Paolo looks like he's not prepared for the demands of spaceflight.
Trust ESA and Russia to remove the glamour and brings us down to reality with a bump ;)

Peter | 11:00 GMT | 11.06.2011

Molto bello. Peccato manchi la ripresa del momento dell'impatto.
Paolo ha sofferto molto più degli altri 2. Kondratiev sembra sceso dal autobus e la Sgra. sorride con molto garbo e tranquillità.
O Paolo era nel posto peggiore, all'interno della Soyuz, o il suo tipo di fisico lo ha messo in condizioni sfavorevoli. Bellissima la steppa; altro che Milano.

Franco | 06:45 GMT | 29.05.2011

I felt so sorry for those guys having such an undignified end to the mission, surrounded by a crowd of soviet generals in the middle of nowhere.

Robert | 11:03 GMT | 28.05.2011

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