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Soyuz recovery -04/2009

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-is018-40000

Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 23 cm

The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying NASA astronaut Michael Fincke, Expedition 18 commander; cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, flight engineer and Soyuz commander; and U.S. spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi, lands on April 8, 2009, near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Fincke and Lonchakov return after spending six months on the International Space Station, and Simonyi is returning from his launch with the Expedition 19 crewmembers twelve days earlier.

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2009 - ASTRONAUT - CAPSULE - COSMONAUT - EXPEDITION 18 - FINCKE EDWARD - HUMAN - KAZAKHSTAN - LONCHAKOV YURI - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - PARACHUTE - POSTFLIGHT - SIMONYI CHARLES - SOYUZ - SOYUZ TMA-13 - SPACE - SPACE TOURISM - SPACESHIP - TOURIST -