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Topic: Soyuz TMA-17 mission to the space station

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 06-01-2010 10:31 PM <BLOCKQUOTE>[b]Soyuz TMA-17 lands on Earth[/b] <div align="justify">ISS Expedition 23 commander Oleg Kotov and flight engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi landed their Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft in Kazakhstan Tuesday, June 1, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Kotov, the Soyuz commander, was at the controls of the spacecraft as it undocked at 7:04 p.m. CDT from the aft port on the station's [i]Zvezda[/i] service module. The crew landed at 10:25 p.m., east of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. <center><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/tma17_landing01.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300"> <font size="-2">Credit: NASA TV</font></center> Recovery teams were on hand to help the crew exit the Soyuz vehicle and adjust to gravity after 163 days in space. Kotov will now return to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, outside of Moscow. NASA astronaut Creamer and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Noguchi will return to Houston on Wednesday. The trio launched on Soyuz TMA-17 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21, 2009. As members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews, they spent 161 days on the station. They supported three space shuttle missions that delivered the U.S. [i]Tranquility[/i] node and its cupola; put the finishing touches on U.S. laboratory research facilities; and attached the Russian [i]Rassvet[/i] Mini-Research Module-1. Kotov has logged a total of 360 days in space on his two missions. Creamer, ending his first mission, has 163 days. Noguchi, who also flew on STS-114 in 2005, has accumulated 177 days in space. <center><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/4662470216/" TARGET="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/tma17_landing02.jpg" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300" BORDER="0"></a> <font size="-2">Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls</font></center> The station is now occupied by Expedition 24 commander Alexander Skvortskov, who took command at 4:00 p.m. Monday, NASA flight engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Roscomos flight engineer Mikhail Kornienko, who arrived April 4. A new trio of Expedition 24 crewmates, Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchickhin, will launch on Soyuz TMA-19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:35 p.m. CDT on June 15 (3:35 a.m. June 16 in Baikonur). They will join the crew when hatches between their Soyuz and the station are opened at 7:34 p.m. on June 17 (2:34 a.m. June 18 in Moscow).</div></BLOCKQUOTE> <center><object width="400" height="321"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lslBglu98nQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lslBglu98nQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="321"></embed></object> <font size="-2">Credit: NASA TV</font></center>
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