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ISS crew members to return to Earth on November 26

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The 25th expedition crew at the International Space Station (ISS) is preparing to return to Earth on November 26, a Mission Control spokesperson said on Monday.

The 25th expedition crew at the International Space Station (ISS) is preparing to return to Earth on November 26, a Mission Control spokesperson said on Monday.

"The astronauts conducted a test of a motion control systems of the Soyuz TMA-19," the spokesperson said, adding that the crew is due to land at 07:46 Moscow time (03:46 GMT), 84 kilometers north of the city of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan.

The crew is made up of Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock, and flight engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin.

Earlier this month Yurchikhin and another Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Skripochka, member of the 26th expedition crew, carried out a six-hour spacewalk.

MOSCOW, November 22 (RIA Novosti)

 

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