Landing
Marking the end of Expedition 24, Skvortsov, Kornienko and Caldwell Dyson successfully undocked their Soyuz TMA-18 at 10:02 pm EDT on 24 September from the Poisk docking port on the Zvezda module. After undocking and a normal descent, the Soyuz-TMA 18 spacecraft landed at 5:23 am GMT near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. At that time the space station was orbiting 220 miles above over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan.
Russian recovery teams and helicopters were on hand to help the crew exit the spacecraft and adjust to gravity after 176 days in space.
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