Expedition 39 Trio Wrapping Up Stay
Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Soyuz commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will wrap up 188 days in space when they depart Wednesday aboard the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft that brought them to the station back in November. The trio will undock their Soyuz from the station at 6:36 a.m. MYT for a landing southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 9:58 a.m.