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Cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev , Russia’s Federal Space Agency flight engineer and Soyuz commander; sees more people than he's seen in six months as personnel assist him in egressing his Soyuz spacecraft. Tokarev and astronaut William S. McArthur, Jr., NASA commander and International Space Station science officer; along with astronaut Marcos C. Pontes, Brazilian Space Agency participant, returned to Earth onboard the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft. Touch down was on April 9, 2006, in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Pontes arrived at the station with the Expedition 13 crew on April 1.