*Expedition 33 Returns Home Safely on This Week @NASA

*Expe­di­tion 33 Returns Home Safe­ly on This Week @NASA



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After hand­ing over the reins of the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion to NASA astro­naut Kevin Ford, Expe­di­tion 33 Com­man­der Suni Williams of NASA, Soyuz Com­man­der Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engi­neer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aero­space Explo­ration Agency, all of whom have been on the sta­tion since July 17, made a safe para­chute-assist­ed land­ing in their Soyuz space­craft in Kaza­khstan on Nov. 19 local time. Expe­di­tion 34 crewmem­bers Ford, Oleg Novit­skiy and Evge­ny Tarelkin will be joined onboard the sta­tion by Russ­ian cos­mo­naut Roman Roma­nenko, NASA’s Tom Marsh­burn and Chris Had­field of the Cana­di­an Space Agency. Their arrival Dec. 21 will restore to six the num­ber of peo­ple aboard the orbit­ing lab­o­ra­to­ry. Also, Plugged-In Stu­dents; Spot the Sta­tion; Curios­i­ty Rover Update; Kepler Search­es On; Make Your Moon­bug­gy; Young Astros; and more!



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