Expedition 61 Landing Preparations

Deputy Head of Rosaviatsiya (Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport) Yadrov Victor Dmitrievich holds a Soyuz landing readiness meeting with teams from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The teams are preparing for the Thursday, February 6th landing of Expedition 61 crew members Christina Koch of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency). Koch will be returning to Earth after logging 328 days in space --- the longest spaceflight in history by a woman --- as a member of Expeditions 59-60-61 on the International Space Station. Skvortsov and Parmitano will be returning after 201 days in space where they served as Expedition 60-61 crew members onboard the station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)