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Expedition 23 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi is helped from a Russian Search and Recovery all terrain vehicle to his helicopter shortly after he and fellow crew members T.J. Creamer and Commander Oleg Kotov landed in their Soyuz TMA-17 capsule near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews.