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JSC2006-E-42730 (29 Sept. 2006) --- Cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov (left), Expedition 13 commander representing Russia's Federal Space Agency; waves as he exits a plane where Russian officials and media gathered to greet the crewmembers upon their return to Chkalovsky Airbase outside Star City near Moscow, Russia following their landing earlier in the day in the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft in central Kazakhstan following their departure from the International Space Station. Astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, NASA space station science officer and flight engineer, and spaceflight participant Anousheh Ansari are out of frame. Vinogradov and Williams spent 183 days on the station, while Ansari spent 11 days in space and 9 days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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