Russian spacemen of ISS-34 carried out about 50 experiments, new start scheduled for March 29

ASTANA. March 16. KAZINFORM - At 9:06 a.m. Astana time in the area northeast of Arkalyk town there was a landing of manned spacecraft (MS) "Soyuz TMA-06M."

The crew of the thirty-fourth long expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth consisting of the commander of the MS, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, flight engineers Eugene Tarelkin (Roscosmos) and Kevin Ford (NASA).

The crew is doing well. In the hours it is scheduled for deliver the crew to the home station for post-flight rehabilitation.
The start of Oleg Novitsky, Eugene Tarelkin and Kevin Ford in the "Soyuz TMA-06M" from the Baikonur Spaceport took place on 23 October 2012. For the Russian cosmonauts it has been the first trip into space, and their U.S. counterpart made his second space mission.

During the expedition, the Russian cosmonauts participated in carrying out 50 experiments according to the Russian program of the applied research and experimentation.

As the press service of Roskosmos is reporting the landing has been successful.

Now the watch at the ISS is by the ISS-35 involving the Commander, the Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and flight engineers - the Roscosmos cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and the NASA astronaut Thomas Mashbern.

As the press service of Russian Federal Space Agency says, the landing of the crew had been watched by the astronauts'' relatives in the Moscow Mission Control Center, by the representatives of Russian and foreign mass media.

As previously reported, due to bad weather conditions the crew's return to Earth had been postponed by one day.

Meanwhile, at the cosmodrome "Baikonur" there are preparations for launching another manned transport spacecraft, the start of a new international expedition to the ISS is scheduled for March 29.