Coming Home from the Space Station

After accepting command of the International Space Station on June 17 from fellow NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, Jeff Williams said farewell to Kopra and his Expedition 47 crewmates, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency). The departing crew then climbed into their Soyuz spacecraft for the trip back to Earth. Kopra, Malenchenko, and Peake are scheduled to land in Kazakhstan to complete a 186-day mission. Williams remains on the station with Flight Engineers Alexey Ovchinin and