The crew of the International Space Station returned home after being relieved earlier this week. The crew of Expedition 29, Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov, returned to Kazakhstan at 9:26pm EST aboard their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft. After 165 days on the International Space Station and 167 days in orbit, the crew of Expedition 29 completed a number of experiments that will help those of us on Earth as well as future missions to space create new chemicals and deal with prolonged exposure to the conditions in space. For more information visit the NASA Expedition 29 home on the web.
