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Soyuz TMA-09M Returns Crew Back to Earth. / November 12, 2013 /

On 11 November at 06:50 Moscow Time, the Soyuz TMA-09M manned spacecraft landed at the landing site south-east of Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan). The landing was performed in normal mode. The Expedition 37 crew to the International Space System consisting of Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (ROSCOSMOS), Flight Engineers Luca Parmitano (ESA) and Karen Nyberg (NASA) returned to Earth. The crew feels well. It is the forth spaceflight to ISS for Fyodor Yurchikhin and the first one for Luca Parmitano. Karen Nyberg made her second flight to ISS.
The crewmembers will be flown to the permanent post, where they will undergo a postflight rehabilitation.
The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft was launched by the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 29 May 2013. The Soyuz TMA-09M successfully docked with the Rassvet Module (MIM1) six hours after liftoff.
After the undocking of the spacecraft from the ISS Russian Segment, the Expedition38/39 crew consisting of Commander Oleg Kotov (ROSCOSMOS), Flight Engineers Sergey Ryazansky (ROSCOSMOS), Michael Hopkins (NASA), Mikhail Tyurin (ROSCOSMOS), Rick Mastracchio (NASA), and Koichi Wakata (JAXA) continues with its work in orbit.
The crew landing was watched by the ROSCOSMOS authorities, the cosmonauts relations, and journalists at the Moscow Region Mission Control Center.

Press service of ROSCOSMOS

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