On June 11 at 13:43 UTC the Russian “Soyuz TMA-15M” landing capsule landed safely in a distance of 148 kilometers south-east from the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 43 – Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Italian astronaut Samantha Christoforetti and American astronaut Terry Virts.

They spent in space 199 days, 16 hours, 42 minutes.

Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Gennadiy Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko as well as American astronaut Scott Kelly remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 44 crew. The undocking of Soyuz TMA-15M marked the end of Expedition 43 and the start of Expedition 44.