Soyuz TMA-15 undocked from the International Space Station at 9:65 p.m. CST Monday, concluding 186 days at the outpost.
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Roman Romanenko (Roscosmos), Frank De Winne (European Space Agency) and Bob Thirsk (Canadian Space Agency) now set to land at 1:15 a.m. CST Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
This is the first landing of a Soyuz spacecraft in December since 1990 when Gennady Manakov, Gennady Strekalov and Japanese journalist Toyohiro Akiyama landed aboard Soyuz TM-10 after a mission to the Mir space station.