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[b]Soyuz TMA-01M undocks from space station[/b] The International Space Station's (ISS) 26th expedition has ended and three of its crew members are heading home. Soyuz commander Alexander Kaleri, station commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Oleg Skripochka undocked the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft from the station's Poisk mini research module at 11:27 p.m. CDT Tuesday (March 16) as the two vehicles were traveling 218 miles over China. After backing away from the station and between two separation burns using the Soyuz's thrusters, the crew performed a test of their spacecraft's annmeters to monitor their roll rate. According to Mission Control in Moscow, the test was successful and the Soyuz performed as expected. Soyuz TMA-01M is set to land in northern Kazakhstan at 2:53 a.m. on Wednesday following a four minute, 17 second deorbit burn at 2:03 a.m. CDT.
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