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| Image above: The Expedition 13 crew along
with Spaceflight Particpant Anousheh Ansari say farewell to the Expedition
14 crew. Photo credit: NASA TV |
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Expedition 13 lands in Kazakhstan
Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, RV3BS, Flight Engineer Jeff
Williams, KD5TVQ, and space tourist Anousheh Ansari landed in the steppes
of Kazakhstan Thursday at 9:13 p.m. EDT.
After saying their farewells to Expedition 14 then entering their Soyuz
spacecraft for the ride home, they undocked from the International Space
Station at 5:53 p.m.
The station’s new residents are Expedition 14 Commander Michael
Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin. Thomas Reiter, a European
Space Agency astronaut, joined Expedition 14 after having been an Expedition
13 flight engineer since July. Space Shuttle Atlantis took Reiter to the
International Space Station, returning the orbiting laboratory to a three-person
crew.
Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin are scheduled for a six-month stay in space.
Reiter is expected to return to Earth in December aboard Space Shuttle
Discovery.
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