Iss Expedition 3435 Change Of Command Ceremony Welcome Commander Hadfield

Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford of NASA passes the helm of the International Space Station to Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency. The Queen of England and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have sent out congratulations to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who is now commander of the International Space Station, noted the "WINNIPEG FREE PRESS".

Former Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford of NASA, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin will undock their Soyuz spacecraft from the station at 8:30 p.m. EDT, March 14, 2013, heading for a landing in Kazakhstan northeast of the remote town of Arkalyk at 11:57 p.m. (10:57 a.m. Kazakh time March 15). They will have spent 143 days in space since launching from Kazakhstan Oct. 23, 2012. NASA-TV WILL PROVIDE LANDING COVERAGE; SPACEREF PROVIDES EXACT SCHEDULE.

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