Soyuz MS-12 Landing Expedition

Soyuz MS-12 Landing Expedition - October 2019
We went thousands of kilometres far away from home and drove hundreds of kilometres in the steppes of Kazakhstan only to see the landing of Soyuz MS-12 on October 3, 2019.
Started in Frankfurt, catching our clients from Australia, the United States and Germany. First, we head to Nur-Sultan (formerly known as Astana) in Kazakhstan, then to Karaganda, and then to the city of Dzezgazghan.
In the early morning of October 3, 2019, we left and drove out into the steppe, hundred of kilometres far out from any civilisation. We were not alone, specialists from Roskosmos and Glavkosmos brought us out there, and they took care of us like their own family.
We erected our basecamp for the night, then approx. 60 minutes before the expected landing, we left out into the fields and mounted some cameras on the cars. This video here is the Dash-Cam, mounted on the leading vehicle.
We never believed it, but from out to nowhere, a white-orange spot approached high above, and Soyuz MS-12 made its last journey to the ground.
Only less than 1,000 metres from our group, Soyuz made the "soft-landing", in which retro-rockets are fired to slow down the falling speed to 30 km/h. You can see the ignition of these rockets just before the landing. The touch-down occurred precisely at 16:59h local time.
The trek stopped until all helicopters are landed, it is a safety measure because you can see the vast amount of red-brown dust of the steppe, you can't see your hand in front of your eyes.
Soyuz Landing Expeditions we do since 2009, but we never were so close to the drop-point as this time so that we could see the landing itself.
If you want to participate in such an Expedition, you can have all the information about here:
www.space-affairs.com/en/expl...
See you out in the steppe dust in 2022!

[@gerhm9901]

✌👍

[@zuhaibshaikh8059]

Ll