Published on May 1, 2017
Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency landed safely on the steppe of Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan on Sept. 11, local time, after bidding farewell to the Expedition 41 crew members and undocking their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft from the Poisk module on the International Space Station. The trio completed 169 days in space since launching in late March.
