Expedition 39 Soyuz Undocks from Station

After spending 188 days aboard the International Space Station, Koichi Wakata, Rick Mastracchio and Mikhail Tyurin undocked from the station’s Rassvet module at 6:36 p.m. EDT to begin their voyage home. Tyurin, the Soyuz commander, was at the controls of the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft. The crew is scheduled to land at 9:58 p.m. EDT, southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.