September 11, 2013

Chris Cassidy, Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin receive assistance after their landing (Photo NASA/Bill Ingalls)

A few hours ago, the Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and the American astronaut Chris Cassidy returned to Earth on the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft, which landed without problems in Kazakhstan. They spent nearly six months on the International Space Station, where they arrived on March 28, 2013. Initially, they were part of Expedition 35, in the second half of their stay they were parts of the Expedition 36 with Pavel Vinogradov as commander of the Station.