RUSSIA: SPACE TOURIST MARK SHUTTLEWORTH AND RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN COSMONAUTS RECEIVE A HEARTY WELCOME AT STAR CITY AFTER THEIR TOUCHDOWN

Record ID: 646719

  • Title: RUSSIA: SPACE TOURIST MARK SHUTTLEWORTH AND RUSSIAN AND ITALIAN COSMONAUTS RECEIVE A HEARTY WELCOME AT STAR CITY AFTER THEIR TOUCHDOWN
  • Date: 5th May 2002
  • Summary: CHKALOVSKY AERODROME, NEAR MOSCOW (MAY 5, 2002) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV PLANE CARRYING COSMONAUTS ON TARMAC 0.08 2. SLV/SV MARK'S YOUNGER BROTHER BRADLEY AND FRIEND HOLDING SOUTH-AFRICAN FLAG (2 SHOTS) 0.16 3. SLV PULL IN SV COSMONAUTS YURI GYDZENKO, ROBERTO VITTORI AND SPACE TOURIST MARK SHUTTLEWORTH DISEMBARKING FROM PLANE AND BEING EMBRACED BY RELATIVES AND OFFICIALS 0.52 4. SV FLAGS 0.54 5. SV MARK SHUTTLEWORTH HUGGING HIS MOTHER, RONELLE 1.03 6. SLV PEOPLE NEAR PLANE 1.10 7. SLV BUS CARRYING COSMONAUTS DRIVING AWAY 1.23 8. MCU (English) RONELLE SHUTTLEWORTH, MOTHER OF SPACE TOURIST MARC SHUTTLEWORTH, SAYING: "I was very worried, it was a completely unknown thing to me. If your child gets in trouble somewhere else you can go and help him but if he is at the ISS (International Space Station) you can't. It was very worrying for me and very emotional because you don't know what to expect and it's very frightening to see your child sitting on the tip of a rocket and feel that noise that absolutely attacks your chest. But I'm very happy that he landed safely and I was very confident with the skills of the team" 2.00 9. SV/CU RONELLE SHUTTLEWORTH RECEIVING AN EASTER EGG ON RUSSIAN ORTHODOX EASTER DAY (2 SHOTS) 2.11 10. SLV SHUTTLWORTH'S BROTHER BRADLEY HOLDING A SOUTH AFRICAN FLAG 2.16 11. MCU (English) BRADLEY SHUTTLEWORTH, BROTHER OF MARK SHUTTLEWORTH SAYING "Extremely proud. I don't think there's anyone in the world, in my shoes, in anyone in my family's shoes, in anyone in South African shoes wouldn't be proud of what we've seen from this mission. Wouldn't be proud of what South Africa has achieved by doing this" 2.31 KOROLYOV, NEAR MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MAY 5, 2002) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 12. SV COSMONAUTS ALIGHTING FROM BUS AND BEING GREETED WITH TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN BREAD AND SALT 2.45 13. SV MARK SHUTTLEWORTH TASTING BREAD AND KISSING YOUNG GIRLS WHO OFFER BREAD 2.53 14. SV COSMONAUTS WALKING INTO BUILDING 2.59 15. SLV BAND PLAYING 3.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th May 2002 13:00
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  • Location: CHKALOVSKY AND KOROLYOV, NEAR MOSCOW,RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA6KQ026PRL8S08TRXR7YOLI4AP
  • Story Text: The world's second space tourist, South African Mark
    Shuttleworth and his fellow Russian and Italian cosmonauts
    have received a hearty welcome at Star City outside Moscow
    after their touchdown on the Kazakh steppe earlier on Sunday.



    The 8-day space odyssey has ended for Mark
    Shuttleworth, the South African space tourist, who arrived at
    Chkalovsky military aerodrome on Sunday (May 5) together with
    his fellow team-mates Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gydzenko and
    Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori.

    After touching down at a remote location in the Kazakh
    steppe, the crew was flown to a military aerodrome outside
    Moscow where they were warmly greeted by relatives and
    officials.

    Yuri Gydzenko was the first to get out of the plane,
    followed by Italian Roberto Vittori and Mark Shuttleworth.

    Mark's mother Ronelle embraced her son and shed tears.

    Ronelle Shuttleworth said she was very worried throughout
    the whole mission but believed in the team and what her son
    was trained for.

    "It was very worrying for me and very emotional because you
    don't know what to expect and it's very frightening to see
    your child sitting on the tip of a rocket and feel that
    noise. But I'm very happy that he landed safely and was very
    confident with the skills of the team" she said
    Shuttleworth was the second man, after American businessman
    Dennis Tito, to have paid the Russian Space Agency an
    estimated $20 million for such a trip.

    Shuttleworth's serious approach to training and the long
    hours of scientific research aboard the space station earned
    him the respect of his fellow professionals and admiration at
    home where he was toasted as the world's first "Afronaut."
    From Chkalovsky aerodrome the crew was taken to nearby
    Star City where the cosmonauts received a traditional bread
    and salt welcoming ceremony. The crew gave no interviews and
    went straight inside for further medical check-ups.


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