Astronaut Marcos Pontes, Brazilian Space Agency participant, greets personnel on hand at the Expedition landing site in Kazakhstan. The Expedition 12 crew members astronaut William S. McArthur, Jr., NASA commander and International Space Station science officer; and cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, Russia’s Federal Space Agency flight engineer and Soyuz commander returned to earth onboard the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft. Touch down was April 9, 2006, in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Pontes arrived at the station with the Expedition 13 crew on April 1.
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Astronaut Marcos Pontes, Brazilian Space Agency participant, greets personnel on hand at the Expedition landing site in Kazakhstan. The Expedition 12 crew members astronaut William S. McArthur, Jr., NASA commander and International Space Station science officer; and cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, Russia’s Federal Space Agency flight engineer and Soyuz commander returned to earth onboard the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft. Touch down was April 9, 2006, in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Pontes arrived at the station with the Expedition 13 crew on April 1.