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Three members of the Expedition 33 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned to Earth Sunday, wrapping up a mission lasting four months. ISS commander Sunita “Suni” Williams of NASA, flight engineer Akihiko Hoshide with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko separated their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft from the station at 4:26 p.m. CST and landed northeast of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 7:56 p.m. The three orbited Earth 2,032 times and traveled 54,090,628 miles over the course of their 127 days in space (125 spent aboard the station).
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2012-11-19 08:01:07