After three missions in space, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev ran into trouble on Earth when he ran over a colleague on a dark road outside Moscow less than three weeks after returning from his last mission in orbit.
Russian space company Roscosmos said Artemyev did not see an employee of the Star City Cosmonaut Training Center crossing the road in the dark on Monday evening.
He said in a statement on Tuesday that Artemyev immediately provided first aid to the victim, Anatoly Uronov, who was hospitalized with multiple broken bones. Roscosmos pointed out that Artemyev was sober and immediately called the police and an ambulance.
RUSSIA SAFELY RETURNS 3 COSMONAUTS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev sits in a chair shortly after the Russian Soyuz MS-21 space capsule landed southeast of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, September 29, 2022. Artemyev led a colleague down a dark road to the outside Moscow less than three weeks back from its last orbital mission.
(Pavel Kassin, Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)
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On September 29, Artemyev, 51, returned from his third mission to the International Space Station, bringing his total time in orbit to 561 days.
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