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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which country does Soyuz rocket that made an emergency landing belong to?
A
US
B
India
C
Russia
D
Japan
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Soyuz means “union” in Russian. The Soyuz programme is the longest operational human spacecraft programme in the history of space exploration. The first crewed flight into space was on 23 April 1967.

Detailed explanation-2: -Soyuz (Russian: , meaning “union", GRAU index 11A511) is a family of expendable Russian and Soviet carrier rockets developed by OKB-1 and manufactured by Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, Russia.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft, which launched three Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station on March 18 of this year, touched down in the Kazakh steppe. MS-21 landed outside of Dzhezkazgan on Thursday, Sept. 29, completing a 195-day mission in low Earth orbit.

Detailed explanation-4: -Soyuz can land with an accuracy of only 28 kilometers, (with a probability of 0.9997), in the automated aerodynamic descent mode, AUS, relative to the center of the projected landing area. The main reason for such a low precision is the suseptibility of the parachute landing to winds.

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