April 27, 2012

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

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly o humphries@nasa gov

RELEASE: 12-140

SPACE STATION TRIO LANDS SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN

HOUSTON -- Three members of the Expedition 30 crew undocked from the International Space Station and safely returned to Earth on Friday, wrapping up a five-and-a-half-month mission in space

Commander Dan Burbank of NASA and Russian Flight Engineers Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov landed their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 6:45 a m CDT after undocking from the space station's Poisk module at 3:18 a m The trio, which arrived at the station on Nov 16, 2011, spent a total of 165 days in space, 163 of them conducting research on the station

Before leaving the station, Burbank handed over command of Expedition 31 to the Russian Federal Space Agency's Oleg Kononenko, who remains aboard the station with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers They will be joined by NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin Acaba, Padalka and Revin are scheduled to launch May 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and dock with the station on May 16

To follow Twitter updates from NASA's Expedition 30 and 31 astronauts, visit:

http://twitter com/AstroCoastie

https://twitter com/astro_Pettit

https://twitter com/AstroAcaba

For more information about Expedition 31 and the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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