Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
After the successful landing, the Soyuz TMA-19 crew flew to Kostanay in Kazakhstan for the welcoming ceremony. Wheelock and Walker boarded a NASA jet waiting for them in Kostanay for the trip back to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Yurchikhin headed for Star City – the home of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.