Ground support personnel are seen waiting to take off in their helicopter from Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan to support the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft landing with Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA, and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Art

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Ground support personnel are seen waiting to take off in their helicopter from Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan to support the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft landing with Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA, and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev 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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