Technicians begin the process of removing cargo from the Soyuz TMA-7 capsule at sunrise on the steppes of Kazakhstan on April 9, 2006 (Kazakhstan time) following the pre-dawn landing of astronaut William S. McArthur Jr., Expedition 12 commander and space station science officer; Russian cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, Soyuz commander and space station flight engineer; and Brazilian Space Agency astronaut Marcos C. Pontes. McArthur and Tokarev completed six months in space on the station, while Pontes spent 10 days in orbit.
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Technicians begin the process of removing cargo from the Soyuz TMA-7 capsule at sunrise on the steppes of Kazakhstan on April 9, 2006 (Kazakhstan time) following the pre-dawn landing of astronaut William S. McArthur Jr., Expedition 12 commander and space station science officer; Russian cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, Soyuz commander and space station flight engineer; and Brazilian Space Agency astronaut Marcos C. Pontes. McArthur and Tokarev completed six months in space on the station, while Pontes spent 10 days in orbit.