Published on January 2, 2018
After bidding farewell, hours earlier, to the Expedition 43 crew members and undocking their Soyuz spacecraft from the International Space Station, Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore of NASA, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos landed safely in Kazakhstan on March 11, EDT time. The trio completed 167 days in space since launching in late September.
