View of the Soyuz TMA-11 on approach to the ISS
ISS021-E-005001 (11 Oct. 2009) --- Backdropped by the blackness of space, the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft departs from the International Space Station carrying Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, Expedition 19/20 commander and Soyuz commander; NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, flight engineer; and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte. Padalka guided the spacecraft to a parachute-assisted landing at 10:32 a.m. (Kazakhstan time) on Oct. 11, 2009, near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
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