Russian filmmakers land after shoot aboard space station
Moscow (AP): A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a 3 1/2-hour trip from the International Space Station.
The capsule, descending under a red-and-white striped parachute after entering Earth's atmosphere, landed upright in the steppes of Kazakhstan on schedule at 0435 GMT Sunday with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko aboard.
Actress Peresild and film director Shipenko rocketed to the space station on October 5 for a 12-day stint to film segments of a movie titled Challenge, in which a surgeon played by Peresild rushes to the space station to save a crew member who needs an urgent operation in orbit.
Novitskiy, who spent more than six months aboard the space station, is to star as the ailing cosmonaut in the movie.
After the landing, which sent plumes of dust flying high in the air, ground crews will extract the three space flyers from the capsule while still strapped in their seats and set them outside as they adjust to the pull of gravity. They then will be taken to a medical tent for examination.
Seven astronauts remain aboard the space station: Russia's Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov; Americans Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency; and Japan's Aki Hoshide.
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Chamarajanagar: 7-year-old boy accidentally falls into tractor rotavator, dies
Chamarajanagar: In a tragic incident, a 7-year-old boy died after accidentally falling into a tractor rotavator at a farm near Devarasanahalli in Nanjangud taluk of Mysuru district.
The deceased boy has been identified as Bhavish (7), son of Karthik, a resident of Kagalawadi village. Bhavish had gone to his grandmother's house in Devarasanahalli for the summer vacation. While sitting with the tractor driver, he accidentally fell off as the driver was plowing his grandmother's agricultural land. However, by the time the driver noticed, Bhavish had fallen into the rotovator and died.
