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Soyuz TMA-16 landing.

On March 18, 2010 at 11:25 UTC the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft with cosmonauts Maksim Suraev (Russia) and Jeffrey Williams (USA) landed at the distance of 57 km from the city of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.

The cosmonauts spent in space 169 days, 04 hours and 10 minutes.

NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams, left, Expedition 22 commander; and Russian cosmonaut Maksim Suraev, Expedition 22 flight engineer, sit in chairs o ... Read more »

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Soyuz TMA-16 / ISS undocking.

On March 18, 2010 the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts undocked from the International Space station at 08:03 UTC.

The space capsule carrying Maxim Surayev of Russia and Jeff Williams of the United States from the ISS Expedition 22 is scheduled to land in central Kazakhstan at approximately 14:23 Moscow time (11:23 UTC).

Work at the ISS will be continued by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and American astronaut Timothy Creamer, until they are joined by Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko ... Read more »

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45th Anniversary of the World’s first human spacewalk.

On March 18, 2010 is the 45th Anniversary of the World’s First Extra Vehicular Activity (Space Walk) performed by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksey LEONOV.

On March 18 – 19, 1965 Aleksey LEONOV together with Pavel BELJAEV performed a spaceflight aboard the "Voskhod-2” spacecraft.

During the flight cosmonaut A.Leonov ... Read more »

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For collections on space thematic.

In 2010 Russian Post issues a cover (postal stationery) devoted to the Cosmonautic Day.

The cover’s picture shows the flight of the "Energia-Buran” space system.

The text in the cover says: 12 April is Cosmonautic Day.

The cover was printed in the paper with watermarks.

Size of the cover 110 X 220 mm.

Print quantity – 2 000 000 copies.

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