Stock Photo - US NASA astronaut Terry Virts now Commander of Expedition 43, tweeted this image of the Soyuz spacecraft that will carry three of his colleagues back to Earth from the International Space station after 167 days in space. Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA and flight engineers Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will ride this Soyuz down at approximately 9:07 p.m. CDT (8:07 a.m. March 12, Kazakh time) southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. Virts added this comment to his tweet: 'The ride home in a few hours for my three crewmates, Саша, #AstroButch, and Елена. Soyuz 40S союз 14М .