On September 25, 2010 at 05:22 UTC the Soyuz TMA-18 capsule with the crew – Alexander Skvortsov, Mikhail Kornienko, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, landed successfully at a distance of 35 km from the city of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
NASA photo: American astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson (left), Expedition 24 flight engineer, with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov (center), Commander of Soyuz TMA-18 and Expedition 24 and Mikhail Kornienko, flight engineer, sit in chairs outside the Soyuz capsule just minutes after they landed.
Health status of the crew was fine. All descent operations were nominal.
Skvortsov, Kornienko and Caldwell Dyson spent in space176 days, 01 hour, 18 minutes and 13 seconds.
Aboard the ISS they served as members of the Expedition 23 and 24 crews. During the mission aboard the ISS they received 3 Progress unmanned supply spacecraft and 2 space shuttles, integrated the new Russian "Rassvet” module (MIM-1) with the station. Attachments: |