Expedition 39 successfully ended last night with the safe return to Earth of Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin and Rick Mastracchio. Expedition 40 begins with the trio of astronauts still on the International Space Station. The crew had been aboard the space station since November, logging more than 3,000 orbits covering 79 million miles in 188 days. The mission was supplied by three cargo spacecraft: the Russian Progress resupply vehicle, Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo ship and SpaceX’s Dragon.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/six-months-later-expedition-39-safely-returns-to-earth-1576132644

