Russian cosmonaut runs over colleague less than three weeks after space return

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev sits in the chair shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-21 space capsule south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Thursday September 29 2022 (Pavel Kassin/Roscosmos State Space Corporation/AP)

A Russian cosmonaut drove over a colleague on a dark road outside Moscow less than three weeks after returning from his latest orbiting mission.

Oleg Artemyev did not see the Star City cosmonaut training centre worker, who was crossing the road in the dark late on Monday, Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said.