New Commander Aboard the Space Station

The reins of the International Space Station were passed from NASA’s Tim Kopra to his NASA crewmate Jeff Williams during a ceremony on the orbital outpost on June 17. Kopra is returning to Earth June 18 with his crewmates, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) in the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to complete a 186-day mission. Williams remains on the station as commander along with Flight Engineers Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka