Space Station Astronauts Land Safely in Kazakhstan

March 15, 2013

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov

Jay Bolden
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov

RELEASE: 13-076

SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN

HOUSTON -- Three members of the Expedition 34 crew undocked from the
International Space Station and returned safely to Earth on Friday,
wrapping up a mission lasting more than four and a half months.
Expedition 35 now is under way.

Station Commander Kevin Ford of NASA and Soyuz Commander Evgeny
Tarelkin and Flight Engineer Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal
Space Agency undocked their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the space
station at 6:43 p.m. CDT and landed northeast of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan,
at about 10:10 p.m. (9:10 a.m., March 16, Kazakh time). The trio
arrived at the station Oct. 25, 2012, and spent 144 days in space,
142 of which were aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield is in command of
Expedition 35. He is the first Canadian to serve as station
commander. Hadfield and his crewmates, Tom Marshburn of NASA and
Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko will work aboard the station until
three additional crew members, including NASA astronaut Chris
Cassidy, arrive in late March.

Ford, Tarelkin, and Novitskiy orbited Earth 2,304 times and traveled
almost 61 million miles.

To follow Twitter updates from NASA's Expedition 35 astronauts, visit:


http://twitter.com/AstroMarshburn

and

http://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

For more information about the International Space Station and its
crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station


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