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Thee cosmonauts to return to Earth from ISS Tuesday aboard Soyuz ship

The ship will bring back Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky of Russia and Michael Hopkins of the United States

MOSCOW, March 11, /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’ state commission in charge of manned space flights has scheduled the landing of the Soyuz TMA-10M spaceship with three cosmonauts aboard for Tuesday, Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said.

The ship will bring back Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky of Russia and Michael Hopkins of the United States.

he ISS-38 Expedition of Kotov, Ryazansky and Hopkins worked aboard the ISS since September 26, 2013. This was the third mission for Kotov and a debut for Ryazansky and Hopkins. They carried out an extensive research programme of 35 experiments, unloaded several Progress transport ships, worked with the European cargo ship Albert Einstein and the American private freighter Cygnus created by Orbital Sciences, and took several space walks under the Russian programme.