page_title: Soyuz TMA-17
section_title: Undocking and landing
hierarchical_section_title: Soyuz TMA-17 / Undocking and landing
caption_attribution_description: The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi are returning from six months on-board the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews.
context_page_description: Soyuz TMA-17 was a human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station. TMA-17 crew members participated in ISS Expedition 22 and Expedition 23. The mission ended when the Soyuz TMA-17 capsule landed on June 2, 2010.
context_section_description: Expedition 23 commander Oleg Kotov was at the controls of the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft as it undocked at 0:04 UTC on June 2, 2010 from the space station's Zvezda module.
  The Soyuz TMA-17 crew capsule landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 3:25 UTC on 2 June 2010 wrapping up their stay aboard the space station.
  Prior to the landing on May 26, 2010, the orbital altitude of the ISS was lowered by 1.5 kilometers to 345 kilometers to ensure perfect conditions for the re-entry of the Soyuz TMA-17 into the Earth's atmosphere. The orbit of the ISS was adjusted using the four engines on board the Progress M-05M spacecraft.
caption: Soyuz TMA-17 capsule lands on the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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