Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Space Station Crew Returns to Earth, Lands Safely in Kazakhstan | NASA

Three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth Tuesday after 188 days in space, during which they orbited Earth more than 3,000 times and traveled almost 79.8 million miles.
Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Soyuz commander Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) touched down southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 9:58 p.m. EDT (7:58 a.m., May 14, in Dzhezkazgan).


Space Station Crew Returns to Earth, Lands Safely in Kazakhstan | NASA

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