Expedition 43 Crew Receives a 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 Virts and Cristoforetti boarded a NASA plane to return to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The trio completed 199 days in space and on the International Space Station following their launch in late November. The footage includes interviews conducted with Virts and Cristoforetti before they began their trip back to Houston. Full Video File available on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/NASAVideo...