Three International Space Station crew members made their way back to Earth Sunday night with Commander Max Suraev, and Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst touching down in Kazakhstan.
NASA says the crew “set a milestone for station science” when they completed 82 hours of research in a week.
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NASA’s Reid Wiseman completed two spacewalks during his time aboard the ISS, and the European Space Agency’s Alexander Gerst and Russian Federal Space Agency’s Max Suraev both completed one spacewalk.
You might remember Gerst from his highly-reshared tweet, in which he posted a photo of explosions over Gaza, taken from the ISS.
The astronauts saw a total of five cargo loads come aboard the ISS, including two Russian spacecraft, a European spacecraft, and one each from Orbital Sciences and SpaceX.
The Expedition 41 crew spent quite a bit of time in space — Suraev has a total of 334 days under his belt, and Wiseman and Gerst come in at 165 days a piece.
Expedition 42 is now underway — crew members Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti are scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan on November 24.