Russian Maksim Surayev, American Reid Wiseman and German Alexander Gerst returned on Monday from the International Space Station ( ISS) to Earth after 165 days in orbit – informed the Russian flight control center.
The lander ship Soyuz TMA-13M dropped by parachute in a scheduled area near the town of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan. 
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The astronauts were on the International Space Station almost six months.
– It was an honor and a privilege to spend 165 days. Now I can not wait to go home – Wiseman said.
Successive astronauts set off on a journey
At the end of September on the ISS flew Russians – Jelena Serov and Aleksandr Samokutiajew – and American Barry Wilmore, who took over command of the station from Surajewa.
November 23 has to fly to the ISS next three astronauts – a Russian, Anton Szkaplerow, American Terry W. Virts and an Italian woman Samantha Cristoforetti.
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Gastronomic Revolution
Along with Italian in space may be a real gastronomic revolution. Samantha Cristoforetti before his mission participated in preparing the menu for her and her colleagues from the ISS.
This led to the fact that the orbital diet food thrown saturated with chemicals. Replaced with, among others, Mediterranean cuisine of the highest quality and certification Slow Food movement, krzewiącego healthy, local food.
In collaboration with the laboratory in Turin and the local chef Astro-Samantha, as it is called in Italy, has developed a menu with the addition of important the diet in such extraordinary circumstances legumes: beans with excellent Piedmont and Sicily lentils, broad beans and the Emilia-Romagna. They were selected primarily because of their nutritional value. The menu will be risotto, quinoa, gourmet condiments and desserts. All packed in special air-tight bags.
The orbit will also feature the best of Italian coffee. For astronauts constructed a special coffee brewing in conditions of weightlessness.
Author: NSZ / Soft, RZW / PAP
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