How Soyuz travels back to Earth: From soft undock to brutal controlled crash

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A Soyuz "soft landing" is bone-jarringly hard for astronauts on their way home. Astronauts returning to Earth on the Roscosmos Soyuz start their journey smoothly with a gentle undocking, but the ride gets a lot rougher before they make their semi-graceful crash into the plains of Kazakhstan.

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