ISS crew to return to Earth Nov 26

November 23rd, 2010 - 12:06 am ICT by IANS  

Moscow, Nov 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The crew of the 25th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) will return to Earth Nov 26, a mission control spokesperson said Monday.

The crew - which consists of expedition 25 commander Doug Wheelock and flight engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin - is due to land at 07.46 a.m. Moscow time (0346 GMT), 84 km north of the city of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, the spokesperson said.

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

–IANS/RIA Novosti
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