On December 14, 2017 at 08:38 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-05” landing capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 53 – Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky, American astronaut Randolph Bresnik and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli. They spent in space 139 days. Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin; American astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joseph Acaba remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 54 crew. The undocking of Soyuz MS-05 marked the end of Expedition 53 and the start of Expedition 54. Attachments: |