Sept 16, 2012

Trent J Perrotto Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 trent j perrotto@nasa gov

Jenny Knotts Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 norma j knotts@nasa gov

RELEASE: 12-325

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS LAND SAFELY IN KAZAKHSTAN

HOUSTON -- Three members of the Expedition 32 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth on Sunday, wrapping up a mission lasting more than four months

Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, and Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, undocked their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the space station at 7:09 p m EDT and landed north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 10:53 p m (8:53 a m , Sept 17, Kazakhstan time) 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, will work aboard the station as a three-person crew until the arrival of three new crew members, including NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, 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

To follow Twitter updates from NASA's Expedition 33 astronauts, visit:

http://twitter com/Astro_Suni

and

https://twitter com/Aki_Hoshide

For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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