An area station commander who returned to Earth three weeks in the past was concerned in a site visitors accident, based on studies.
Worldwide House Station (ISS) Expedition 67 commander Oleg Artemyev struck a pedestrian “in situations of restricted visibility” on Tuesday (Oct. 18), based on Roscosmos (opens in new tab). (The report was in Russian; translation offered by Google.) The accident occurred outdoors a pedestrian crossing zone “on a poorly lit highway,” added Roscosmos, saying that Artemyev was sober, referred to as docs to the scene and gave first assist.
Roscosmos recognized the pedestrian as Anatoly Uronov, who Russian media says was a mission supervisor at coaching heart Star Metropolis in Moscow, based on Russian area journalist Anatoly Zak (opens in new tab). The pedestrian is in hospital within the area at Shchyolkovo “with fractures,” added Roscosmos, which didn’t launch additional particulars of his situation. Artemyev had simply returned to Earth Sept. 29 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, touchdown in Kazakhstan with two different cosmonauts following a half-year of science and spacewalks on the ISS.
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Newly returned spaceflyers sometimes have just a few weeks off from driving amid peer-reviewed analysis exhibiting that their capacity to drive is decreased (opens in new tab).
Raffi Kuyumjian, flight surgeon for Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield through the latter’s 2012-13 mission, mentioned in 2013 {that a} typical area station resident on a six-month mission can resume driving in about three weeks (opens in new tab), relying on medical clearance. Artemyev landed 19 days in the past and presumably would have been following his personal doctor’s medical recommendation earlier than getting behind the wheel.
Artemyev participated in quite a few spacewalks throughout Expedition 66/67, together with one Aug. 17 tour reduce brief on account of issues together with his go well with. All points had been resolved for the following extravehicular exercise, or EVA. He assumed command of the ISS on Might 4 and held the place till Sept. 28, managing the complete station’s actions from orbit.
Artemyev, whose earlier jobs embody working within the Soviet Military and with spacecraft producer RSC Energia, has spent greater than 560 days in area throughout three long-duration missions: Expedition 39/40 in 2014, Expedition 55/56 in 2018, and Expedition 66/67 in 2022.
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