# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BjkXIKrne8V
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11735184-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-06-03T15:49:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Welcome to Earth! Three people landed back on planet Earth this morning after spending 168 days in space. NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (Astro_Maker), astronaut Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (Anton_Astrey) of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz spacecraft southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 8:39 a.m. EDT. 
The crew completed hundreds of experiments, including materials testing, a study of the effect of microgravity on the bone marrow and research into plant growth in space during their time on the International Space Station (iss). Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 
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earth, nasa, trip, space, roscosmos, landing, laboratory, science, soyuz, astronauts, travel, touchdown, crew, spacecraft, return, microgravity, home, planetearth

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