Warm Welcome in Kazakhstan and Russia for Expedition 30

Warm Wel­come in Kaza­khstan and Rus­sia for Expe­di­tion 30



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Expe­di­tion 30 Com­man­der Dan Bur­bank of NASA, Russ­ian Soyuz Com­man­der Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engi­neer Ana­toly Ivan­ishin were greet­ed in a tra­di­tion­al cer­e­mo­ny at the air­port in Kus­tanai, Kaza­khstan on April 27, 2012, hours after land­ing in their Soyuz TMA-22 space­craft on the steppe of Kaza­khstan. After the cer­e­mo­ny, the crew split up, with Shkaplerov and Ivan­ishin return­ing to their train­ing base in Star City, Rus­sia, while Bur­bank board­ed a NASA plane in Kus­tanai to return to the John­son Space Cen­ter in Hous­ton. The trio com­plet­ed almost six months aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion fol­low­ing a launch in Novem­ber. The footage includes an inter­view con­duct­ed with Bur­bank in Kus­tanai before begin­ning his trip home to Houston.



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