View from the cockpit of one of twelve Russian search and rescue helicopters as they take off from the city of Karaganda to Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan a day ahead of the scheduled landing of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft.
201309100004hq (10 Sept. 2013) — View from the cockpit of one of twelve Russian search and rescue helicopters as they take off from the city of Karaganda to Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan a day ahead of the scheduled landing of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy are returning to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls