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JSC2006-E-13225 (9 April 2006) --- The Expedition 12 crew members--astronaut William S. McArthur, Jr. (pictured), NASA commander and International Space Station science officer; cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev, Russia’s Federal Space Agency flight engineer and Soyuz commander; and astronaut Marcos Pontes, Brazilian Space Agency participant--returned to earth onboard the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft. Touch down occurred on April 9, 2006, in the steppes of Kazakhstan. Pontes arrived at the station with the Expedition 13 crew on April 1. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls |