Space Station Crew to Return to Earth Friday

Three astronauts are set to leave the International Space Station early Friday morning (April 27) to return home after living in space for nearly half a year. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are slated to undock from the space station at 4:18 a.m. EDT (0818 GMT) Friday. They are expected to wrap up a 5 1/2-month space mission with a ride back to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, which is due to touch down in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 GMT). More

(Source: Space.com - Apr 27)