Russian support personnel work around the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft after it landed with Expedition 43 commander Terry Virts of NASA, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from European Space Agency (ESA) near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Virts, Shkaplerov, and Cristoforetti returned to Earth after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 42 and 43 crews.

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