Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, the 12th crew of the International Space Station, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan in their Soyuz spacecraft at 7:48 p.m. EDT Saturday after about 190 days in space.
Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, the 12th crew of the International Space Station, undocked in their Soyuz spacecraft from the orbiting laboratory at 4:28 p.m. EDT Saturday and headed for a landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
The International Space Station crew rolled out a welcome mat for their successors early Monday, moving their Soyuz TMA spacecraft to clear a docking port for Expedition 13's arrival.
International Space Station crewmembers Valery Tokarev and Bill McArthur Friday completed a 5-hour, 43-minute spacewalk.
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The 25-minute trip took the spacecraft to a docking port about 45 feet from where it started, but during the move the capsule and crew traveled about 5,500 miles.
It was on with the new and off with the old during the first station-based spacewalk in U.S. suits in more than two years.
The Expedition 12 crew arrives at the orbiting outpost for a 6-month stay.
Two veteran crewmembers will make up the 12th crew of the International Space Station since continuous human presence began on the orbiting laboratory in November 2000.