Russian space official denies report of problem in Soyuz return

The head of Russia's space agency denied a Russian spacecraft returning from the International Space Station flew blind after sensors failed during descent. One of the crew, cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, had said the sensor failure meant the crew couldn't gather information about the module's altitude. "After separation (of the landing and orbital modules) all our parameters we must control disappeared," Pavel Vinogradov told reporters in Moscow after returning there from the landing site in Kazakhstan Wednesday. More

(Source: UPI - Sep 15)