Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos were greeted in a traditional ceremony at the airport in Karaganda, Kazakhstan April 10, a few hours after landing in their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft in Kazakhstan near the town of Dzhezkazgan. After the ceremony, the crew split up, with Ryzhikov and Borisenko returning to their training base in Star City, Russia, while Kimbrough flew back to his home in Houston on a NASA jet. The trio spent 173 days in space.
