HTTP:: Expedition 20 Lands in Kazakhstan
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Early on Sunday morning, onlookers near the Russian space agency's Baikonur Cosmodrome could see the conical Soyuz TMA-14 capsule descend from the skies attached to its parachute, following a short descent from aboard the International Space Station. It returned home former International Space Station (ISS) Commander Gennady Padalka (RosCosmos) and flight engineer Michael Barratt (NASA), alongside billionaire Guy Laliberte, who just concluded an 11-day trek aboard the orbital lab. The three space fliers departed the space station and closed the hatch between the two spacecraft at 6:06 pm EDT on Saturday, October 10 (2206 GMT), and undocked from the lab at 9:07 pm EDT (0107 GMT, Sunday, October 11). They landed safely in Kazakhstan at around 12:32 am EDT (1632 GMT). “Goodbye station. I would like to express my gratefulness to all my crewmates. Without my crew mates I would be nothing as commander,†Padalka said in the ceremony that saw him officially handing over the c!
ommand of the ISS to ESA astronaut Frank de Winne. With the ceremony, Expedition 20 officially ended, and Expedition 21 began. “For a first flight I'm probably one of the luckiest astronauts. My first flight was incredible,†Barratt, who just completed his first stay aboard the station, added. The two professional astronauts acc...
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