Frank Rubio, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin spent 371 days in space while traveling roughly the same distance as 328 round trips to the moon and back.
's undocking officially marked the end of Expedition 69 and the start of Expedition 70 aboard the orbiting complex. and Frank three," said European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who took over command of the space station from Prokopyev during a brief ceremony on Tuesday ."And perhaps most remarkably of all, you flew in space during your mission with 28 other individuals.
"Your competence, dedication and hard work is also abundantly clear to me and my Expedition 70 crewmates," Mogensen said."The space station is tidy, organized and work up here is flowing smoothly and efficiently. And that's in large part thanks to your hard work during the last year. On behalf of Expedition 70, I would like to thank you for setting us up for success."
Mogensen's Expedition 70 crewmates include NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, cosmonauts Andrey Fedyaev, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub ofand Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. Kononenko and Chub are scheduled to spend a year on the station to allow for a"taxi crew" and a short visit by a representative from the Republic of Belarus in March.
Unlike Kononenko and Chub, Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio did not know they would be off the planet for more six months
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