--- title: LIVE: Watch 3 Space Station Astronauts Return From to Earth description: Crew-members Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti will land in Kazakhstan on June 11 canonical: https://time.com/3916105/space-station-astronauts-soyuz-kazakhstan/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-11T13:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T09:08:26.804Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch 3 Astronauts Land on Earth from the Space Station og:description: It might be a bumpy ride og:url: https://time.com/3916105/space-station-astronauts-soyuz-kazakhstan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta971de58864b5926/698853e9cd1bba29176fbbef/international-space-station-astronauts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: international space station nasa astronauts og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch 3 Astronauts Land on Earth from the Space Station twitter:description: It might be a bumpy ride twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta971de58864b5926/698853e9cd1bba29176fbbef/international-space-station-astronauts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch 3 Astronauts Return Home from the Space Station > Sponsored content. 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Time follows Kelly and his twin brother, Mark, as they work the test the boundaries of long-term space travel._  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Jun 11, 2015 1:00 PM UTC Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency landed safely near the town of Dzhezkazgan  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Jun 11, 2015 1:00 PM UTC The Soyuz spacecraft will get you home, but that doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy the ride. The journey takes over three hours from the time you separate from the International Space Station until the time you thump down in Kazakhstan—and none of it feels like first class travel. First comes the separation from the station and a four-min., 21-sec. engine burn that will steadily lower your altitude and send you slamming into the atmosphere 76 mi. (121 km) above ground. Then, your spacecraft will be surrounded by a fireball as you plunge toward the ground, a storm that will abate only when you reach heavier, thicker air and your parachutes open, decelerating you suddenly and violently. But there’s no ocean splashdown here. You’ll hit the Kazakh soil hard, and while braking rockets will fire to cushion the impact, you won’t much notice their effect. Station astronaut Scott Kelly compares the experience to “going over Niagara Falls in a barrel—that’s on fire.” That adventure is what space station crew-members Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti experienced on June 11\. Watch above as the trio’s 199 days in space came to an end with a wild ride home. _Read next:_ [_How Vaccines in Space Can Help on Earth_](http://time.com/3915799/vaccines-space-kelly-brothers/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3916105/space-station-astronauts-soyuz-kazakhstan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3916105/space-station-astronauts-soyuz-kazakhstan/"},"headline":"Watch 3 Astronauts Return Home from the Space Station","datePublished":"2015-06-11T13:00:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-01T09:08:26.804Z","description":"Crew-members Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti will land in Kazakhstan on June 11","url":"https://time.com/3916105/space-station-astronauts-soyuz-kazakhstan/","keywords":["A Year In Space","Space","NASA","astronauts","international space station","Space Exploration","esa"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta971de58864b5926/698853e9cd1bba29176fbbef/international-space-station-astronauts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta971de58864b5926/698853e9cd1bba29176fbbef/international-space-station-astronauts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"international space station nasa astronauts","caption":"international space station nasa astronauts","creditText":"NASA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/a-year-in-space/","name":"A Year In Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3916105/space-station-astronauts-soyuz-kazakhstan/","name":"Watch 3 Astronauts Return Home from the Space Station"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"International Space Station Expedition 43 Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan","description":"Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency landed safely near the town of Dzhezkazgan","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/tSiTw9qU/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-11T17:05:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tSiTw9qU.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3916105/space-station-astronauts-soyuz-kazakhstan/","duration":"PT3M43S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3916105/space-station-astronauts-soyuz-kazakhstan/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Year in Space: The Mission","description":"On March 28, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins a historic year in Space. 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