March 15, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@xxxxxxxx Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 jay.e.bolden@xxxxxxxx RELEASE: 13-076 SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN HOUSTON -- Three members of the Expedition 34 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth on Friday, wrapping up a mission lasting more than four and a half months. Expedition 35 now is under way. Station Commander Kevin Ford of NASA and Soyuz Commander Evgeny Tarelkin and Flight Engineer Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency undocked their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the space station at 6:43 p.m. CDT and landed northeast of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at about 10:10 p.m. (9:10 a.m., March 16, Kazakh time). The trio arrived at the station Oct. 25, 2012, and spent 144 days in space, 142 of which were aboard the orbiting laboratory. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield is in command of Expedition 35. He is the first Canadian to serve as station commander. Hadfield and his crewmates, Tom Marshburn of NASA and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko will work aboard the station until three additional crew members, including NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, arrive in late March. Ford, Tarelkin, and Novitskiy orbited Earth 2,304 times and traveled almost 61 million miles. To follow Twitter updates from NASA's Expedition 35 astronauts, visit: http://twitter.com/AstroMarshburn and http://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
