After living and working in low-Earth orbit for 168 days, three members of the International Space Station Expedition 55 crew returned to Earth on Sunday. They were American astronaut Scott Tingle, Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai and Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.
Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Tingle, Kanai and Shkaplerov undocked from the International Space Station at 5.16 am EDT to begin their trip home, NASA said in a blogpost. This mission was the first for Tingle and Kanai, and Shkaplerov now has logged 532 days in space on three flights.