March 15, 2013

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa gov

Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 jay e bolden@nasa gov

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

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