12-03-15 3:14 pm – Source: Belga
Mikhail Korniyenko, Gennady Padalka and Scott Kelly leave on 28 March. © Reuters
An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station on board a Soyuz capsule on the way back to Earth.
Barry Wilmore, Aleksandr Samokoetjajev and Elena Serova stayed six months on the ISS. They arrived on September 26 and spent a total of 167 days aboard the space station.
During that time they put 112 million kilometers, reports NASA. The three countries will be in a few hours in the Kazakh steppe. Laggards in the ISS, the Italian Samantha Cristoforetti, the American Terry Virts and Russian Anton Tsjkaplerov.
The next launch of a Soyuz is scheduled on March 28 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with a US board astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts.
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