Back to Earth by Claudie André Deshays

Back to Earth by Claudie André Deshays

French cosmonaut Claudie ANDRE DESHAYS is back on Earth in the steppe of Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TM23 capsule after ten days spent on the Russian station MIR. She landed in Baikonur with two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri ONOUFRIENKO and Yuri OUSATCHEV, who had been staying in the station for 195 days. She is helped, surrounded, kissed, she walks but we help her to sit on a chaise longue but is in good physical condition compared to the cosmonaut Yuri OUSATCHEV weaker, he is carried and lying on a chair, he cannot walk, his bones would break. Declaration of Claudie André Deshays before his departure for the city of Stars in Moscow for medical examinations: "Yes I would like to start again, it was high".

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File : Claudie Haigneré

Publication date : 2 September 1996