Capture Date: 2014-05-14T00:00:00Z
Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) answers questions from the media during a welcome home ceremony, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at the Karaganda Airport in Kazakhstan. Wakata, Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA landed in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft just a few hours earlier near the town of Zhezkazgan. Wakata, Tyurin and Mastracchio returned to Earth after more than six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 38 and 39 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)