What Is A Ballistic Descent?
Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Ovchinin and U.S. astronaut Nick Hague returned to Earth in their Soyuz capsule in “ballistic descent mode” for an emergency landing following a problem with the booster rocket on October 11.
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Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Ovchinin and U.S. astronaut Nick Hague returned to Earth in their Soyuz capsule in “ballistic descent mode” for an emergency landing following a problem with the booster rocket on October 11.