International Space Station (ISS) Mission Commander Jeff Williams, returned to Earth today after clocking up a cumulative total of 534 space-days. Along with fellow Expedition 48 Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka, Colonel Williams touched down outside Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan on September 7 at 7:13 am local time (September 6 at 9:13 am PDT) in the Soyuz TMA-20M capsule.
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