The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, launched Sunday, October 12, 2008, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three crew members docked with the International Space Station on October 14. Garriott returned to Earth on October 24 with two members of the Expedition 17 crew, while Fincke and Lonchakov remained on the station for six months..
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