NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren rests in a chair just minutes after he and Kimya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) landed in their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Friday, December 11, 2015. Kononenko, Lindgren, and Yui returned 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) Image #: Date: December 11, 2015

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Location: Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
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Keywords: 45, aerospace, agency, expedition, exploration, japan, landing