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Houston station on space to ground

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welcome to space to ground your weekly

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look at what's happening on board the

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International Space Station I'm Crawford

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Jones ISS expedition 40 came to a close

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this week as three crew members said

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farewell to their home in space after

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handing over the reins as station

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commander did cosmonaut max suraev on

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Tuesday NASA astronaut Steve Swanson

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alongside cosmonauts Alexander

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Schwartzel and Oleg Artemyev

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boarded their Soyuz spacecraft on

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Wednesday for their three and a half

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hour trip back to earth

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the Soyuz touched down on the steppe of

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Kazakhstan at 10:23 p.m. Eastern Time

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and the crew is quickly extracted from

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the capsule by recovery forces just

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hours later Swanson boarded a plane for

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his return to Houston and his two

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Russian crewmates returned to their

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training base in Star City Russia

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the trio spent 169 days on board the ISS

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and traveled over 72 million miles the

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departure of Swanson skorts off and

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artemiev officially kicked off ISS

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expedition 41 with new commander max

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suryya

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and flight engineers reid wiseman and

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alexander gerst remaining on board they

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will have the orbital outposts all to

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themselves for about two weeks before

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being joined by their expedition 41

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crewmates NASA astronaut butch Wilmore

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and cosmonauts yelena serova and

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alexander samokutyaev that crew will

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head to Baikonur Kazakhstan on Friday in

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preparation for their launch on

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September 25th this week's Twitter

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question comes from Mariana she asks how

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many people can fit in the Soyuz in case

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of an emergency

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well mariana a Soyuz capsule can safely

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hold three space travelers and there's

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always a seat available for each ISS

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crew member so no matter what there's

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always a way to get the crew back home

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safely make sure to keep sending your