Tour over -- Expedition 43 returns home on This Week @NASA – June 12, 2015

On June 10, NASA’s Terry Virts passed command of the International Space Station to Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency – marking the start of the Expedition 44 mission. The following day, Virts and Expedition 43 crewmates Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos climbed aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and headed back to Earth – landing safely in Kazakhstan and capping off 199 days in space. The remaining members of Expedition 44, including NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, are targete
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