Expedition 39 Crew Members Land In Kazakhstan After 188 Days In Space

Three crew members of Expedition 39 returned to Earth from the International Space Station, or ISS, on Tuesday after a 188-day stint in space, during which they orbited the planet more than 3,000 times and traveled nearly 79.8 million miles. The three astronauts, including Expedition 39 commander Koichi Wakata of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, flight engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Soyuz commander Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, or Roscosmos, landed southeast of th...