Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)is seen in Kazakh robe and hat during

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Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)is seen in Kazakh robe and hat during a welcome home ceremony and press conference held at the Karaganda airport a few hours after he and Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, and Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA landed in their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan 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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