International Space Station Astronauts Land Safely In Kazakhstan

First Pre-Dawn Landing In The Dark For A Station Crew In Six Years Three members of the Expedition 33 crew undocked from the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth Sunday, wrapping up a mission lasting more than four months. Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams of NASA, Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko undocked their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft from the space station at 1726 EST and landed north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 2056 EST ... or 0756, November 19, Kazakhstan time.

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