Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) looks up at the sky as he rests in a chair outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after he and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, and, Commander Ste

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Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) looks up at the sky as he rests in a chair outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after he and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, and, Commander Steve Swanson of NASA, landed in their Soyuz TMA-12M capsule in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. Skvortsov, Artemyev, and Swanson returned to Earth after more than five months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 39 and 40 crews.

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