Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi landed safely southwest of Karaganda, Kazakhstan at 8:31 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 21. The landing concludes a 215-day flight for Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin and marks the longest single flight by an American astronaut.
Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi landed safely southwest of Karaganda, Kazakhstan at 8:31 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 21.
The landing concludes a 215-day flight for Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin and marks the longest single flight by an American astronaut. Simonyi had launched on April 7 with the Expedition 15 crew, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov.
Suni Williams, who had been a member of Expedition 14 since December, remains on the station with Expedition 15 until this summer.Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls