International Space Station Expedition 43 Crew Receives Warm Welcome in Kazakhstan and Russia

Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) were greeted in a traditional ceremony at the airport in Karaganda, Kazakhstan on June 11, a few hours after landing in their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft in Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan. After the ceremony, the crew split up, with Shkaplerov returning to his training base in Star City, Russia, while Vir