Kotov, Hopkins and Ryazanskiy are along for a 5-1/2 month position in space conscious and functioning dressed in the orbital laboratory. They are due to riposte ground in Exposition 2014 landing in Kazakhstan dressed in the self-same Soyuz spacecraft they into in.
Chase 37 Russian Group Artist Sergey Ryazanskiy, top, NASA Group Artist Michael Hopkins, Soyuz Manage Oleg Kotov, bottom line, influence commencement address from the base of the Soyuz go sky-high at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Their Soyuz TMA-10M go sky-high is along to job at 2:58 a.m. mum time. Show Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)
This is Kotov's third space station tell. He served as a flight contrive for Chase 15 in 2007. Kotov was then leader in 2010 for Chase 23. Hopkins and Ryazanskiy are both on their first space tell.
Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano take been aboard the space station since May 28. They take seen the start of two international resupply ships and one public notice plunder craft.
Since they began their tell, Yurchikhin has participated in three Russian spacewalks. Parmitano conducted two U.S. spacewalks. Nyberg captured Japan's Kounotori-4 resupply ship in the function of at the turn of the Canadarm2.
