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Expedition 12 Landing
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Astronaut William S. McArthur Jr., Expedition 12 commander and space station science officer, smiles as he experiences terra firma for the first time in six months following the touchdown of the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft in the steppes of Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 9, 2006. Brazilian astronaut Marcos Pontes and cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, Russias Federal Space Agency flight engineer and Soyuz commander joined McArthur for the return trip from the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineExpedition 12 Landing. NASA/HQ, 2006-04-08. Public domain. ID: 20060409_exp12_02.
