Expedition 57 to 58 Change of Command Ceremony December 18, 2018

The reins of the International Space Station were passed from Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency to Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos during a ceremony on the orbital outpost on Dec. 18. Gerst is returning to Earth Dec. 20 with his Expedition 57 crewmates, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to complete a six-and-a-half month mission. Kononenko remains on the station as commander of Expedition 58 along with Flight Engineers Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency.

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