Expedition 16 Commander Whitson returns in to Earth in Russia

Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson waves to a crowd of well wishers from the top of the airplane steps as she arrives at Chkalovsky airport near Star City along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and South Korean So-yeon Yi. Whitson, Malechenko and Yi landed their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft on April 19, 2008 in central Kazakhstan to complete 192 days in space for Whitson and Malenchenko and 11 days in orbit for Yi. (UPI Photo/Bill Ingalls/NASA)

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