Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke (lower left), NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer, greets his wife and children for the first time in six months after exiting the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center's airplane after the crew's flight from Kustanay, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz capsule carrying Fincke, cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka (foreground), Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 9 commander, and Russian Space Forces cosmonaut Yuri Shargin landed approximately 85 kilometers northeast of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan on October 24, 2004.
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Astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke (lower left), NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer, greets his wife and children for the first time in six months after exiting the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center's airplane after the crew's flight from Kustanay, Kazakhstan. The Soyuz capsule carrying Fincke, cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka (foreground), Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 9 commander, and Russian Space Forces cosmonaut Yuri Shargin landed approximately 85 kilometers northeast of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan on October 24, 2004.