DELAYED-Three ISS Crew Return, Canadian Becomes ISS Commander
UPDATE: The landing was delayed one day due to bad weather at the landing site and this article has been updated accordingly.
Three International Space Station (ISS) crew members are getting ready to return to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft. Their departure was scheduled for March 14 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), but was postponed for one day because of inclement weather at the landing site in Kazakhstan.
The three crew members — American Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Evgeny Tarelkin — are now scheduled to undock from the ISS on March 15 EDT at 7:43 pm and land at 11:06 pm (it will be 11 hours later local time in Kazakhstan).
The return of the three marks a change in “expedition” crews, which means a new ISS commander. Yesterday, Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian to hold that position.
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