NASA
astronauts who live and work on the International Space Station get
there and back by hitching rides with the Russians. You have to wonder
what Kennedy and Khrushchev would think of that. On Thursday morning,
cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova, and NASA astronaut
Barry Wilmore (commander of Expedition 42) came home to Earth in a Soyuz
spacecraft, floating down with the aid of an enormous parachute, to
land in Kazakhstan. This picture of the golden parachute (which is
actually red and white) was captured by NASA photographer Bill Ingalls.
See more pictures from the successful landing
at National Geographic. Get more technical details about the return
at NASA.
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