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[b]Soyuz TMA-04M returns to Earth[/b] Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 32 crew returned safely to Earth on Sunday (Sept. 16), wrapping up a mission lasting more than four months. Flight engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Sergei Revin both of Roscosmos, undocked their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the space station at 6:09 p.m. CDT (2309 GMT) and landed north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 9:53 p.m. (8:53 a.m., Sept. 17, Kazakhstan time; 0253 GMT). The trio arrived at the station May 17 and spent 125 days in space, 123 of which were aboard the orbiting laboratory. After the Soyuz spacecraft separated from the space station, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams took command of Expedition 33. Williams is the second woman to command the station. She and her crewmates, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), will work aboard the station as a three-person crew until the arrival of three new crew members in mid-October. Acaba, Padalka and Revin orbited Earth 2,000 times and traveled 52,906,428 miles. Padalka now ranks fourth for the most days spent in space — a total of 711 days during four flights.
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