Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Soyuz Returns

There they descent from heaven, into dust

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Original – Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft floated over a sea of golden clouds during its descent by parachute through planet Earth's dense atmosphere. On board were Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). Touch down was at approximately 10:07 p.m. EDT (8:07 a.m. March 12, Kazakh time) southeast of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. The three were returning from low Earth orbit, after almost six months on the International Space Station as members of the Expedition 41 and Expedition 42 crews.

Reason

Just good enough for a FP with good EV and quality.

Articles in which this image appears

Soyuz TMA-14M

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator – -The Herald ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 15:32, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the nom. —Bruce1ee^talk 04:59, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support. OK, I'll bite. This is an impressive photo and presumably a difficult to capture event. Shame the parachute isn't a little higher in the sky perhaps, but it's nice as it is. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 02:07, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support. —Bruce1ee^talk 04:59, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Totally cool. HullIntegrity^\ talk / 13:13, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Wow and EV all in one.--Godot13 (talk) 03:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Vishnu (talk) 07:07, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry Vishnu, you don't have enough edits to vote here..-The Herald ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 13:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

• Support --Fauzan^{✆ talk}_{✉ mail} 15:56, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Godhulii 1985 (talk) 15:32, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Bammesk (talk) 16:59, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support oooooooo pretty! Huge EV too... Btw just curious, how many edits needed to be able to vote The Herald ? gazhiley 12:49, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
  • ‎It's 25 days and at least 100 edits – see the top of the page here. —Bruce1ee^talk 13:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
    • Thanks Bruce1ee - looked everywhere except the opening paragraphs! gazhiley 17:15, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

• @GazhileyThe rule was not there till January. There was actually a discussion in talk page on the matter. -The Herald ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 02:42, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

• Ah excellent The Herald - I wondered why I hadn't noticed that before... Thank god all my edits were pre that rule coming in - I now meet the criteria, but wouldn't have when I first started editing on this page... gazhiley 16:25, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Expedition 42 Soyuz TMA-14M Landing (201503120102HQ).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:33, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

• Added image to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:33, 25 March 2015 (UTC)