Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) rest in a chair just minutes after he and Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Kimya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) landed in their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Kononenko, Lindgren, and Yui are returning after 141 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 44 and 45 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin) Expedition 45 Soyuz TMA-17M Landing (NHQ201512110004)

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