HOUSTON, June 2 (UPI) -- NASA said the crew of Expedition 23 landed their Soyuz-17 spacecraft safely late Tuesday, ending a 5 1/2-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi undocked at 8:04 p.m. EDT from the aft port of the space station's Zvezda module, NASA said. The crew landed at 11:25 p.m. EDT, east of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.