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houston station on space to ground

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touchdown

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welcome to space to ground i'm dan

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hewitt tim copra tim peake and yuri

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malenchenko landed safe and sound over

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the weekend before they left coper

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handed over command of the space station

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jeff congratulations

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you're now the commander of the

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international space station thank you

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williams remains on board along with

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cosmonauts alex krapochka and alexia

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obchenin as part of expedition 48.

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landing day is always a long one for

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station crews and it all starts with

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saying farewell the departing trio said

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their goodbyes before loading into their

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soyuz spacecraft after closing the

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hatches and getting suited up they

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undocked from the rassvet module to

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begin the several hour journey home

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using the spacecraft's engines to break

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they descended through the earth's

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atmosphere and landed right on target in

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southeastern kazakhstan search and

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recovery forces got them out quickly to

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enjoy their first breath of fresh air in

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186 days

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six months in space certainly seems like

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a lot but what about over 800 days in

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space

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britain's tim peake was the rookie

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amongst the crew and now has 186 days in

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space on his resume nasa astronaut tim

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kopra just wrapped up his second mission

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and now has 244 days orbiting the earth

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for russian cosmonaut yuri malenchenko

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this marked the sixth time he's returned

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from space racking up an incredible 828

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days in space in his career enough for

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second place all-time among space

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travelers that's a lot of frequent flyer

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miles

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