Girls in ceremonial Kazakhstan dress wait to welcome the return of Expedition 48 crew members NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos at a welcome ceremony at the Karaganda Airport in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. 2016(Kazakh time). Williams, Ovchinin, and Skripochka are returning after 172 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 47 and 48 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Expedition 48 Soyuz TMA-20M Landing (NHQ201609070045)

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