After three missions in space, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev found himself in trouble on Earth when he flew over a colleague on a dark road outside Moscow, less than three weeks after returning from his last mission to orbit.
Russian space company Roscosmos said Artemyev did not see an employee of the Star City cosmonaut training center who was crossing the street in the dark towards the end of Monday.
In a statement on Tuesday, he said that Artemyev immediately provided first aid assistance to the victim, Anatoly Uronov, who was hospitalized with several fractures. Roscosmos pointed out that Artemyev was sober and immediately called the police and an ambulance.
RUSSIA SAFELY RETURNS 3 COSMONAUTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev sits in a chair shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-21 space capsule southeast of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on September 29, 2022. Artemyev drove a colleague on a dark road outside Moscow less than three weeks back from its last orbiting mission.
(Pavel Kassin, Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)
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On September 29, 51-year-old Artemyev returned from his third mission to the International Space Station, which brought his total time spent in orbit to 561 days.
