Officials, family and media gather to welcome home Expedition 48 Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos at the Chkalovsky Airport in Star City, Russia several hours after they and NASA astronaut Jeff Williams landed their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft in a remote area outside the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016 (Kazakh time). Williams, Ovchinin, and Skripochka returned after 172 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 47 and 48 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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Officials, family and media gather to welcome home Expedition 48 Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos at the Chkalovsky Airport in Star City, Russia several hours after they and NASA astronaut Jeff Williams landed their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft in a remote area outside the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016 (Kazakh time). Williams, Ovchinin, and Skripochka returned after 172 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 47 and 48 crews onboard the International Space Station.