Trip back home from orbit

Two astronauts at the International Space Station are setting off for Earth after almost six months in orbit. The Soyuz spacecraft is undocking from the ISS, piloted by Russia's Maksim Suraev and NASA's Jeffrey Williams.

The flight will take some three hours, after which the Soyuz will land in Kazakhstan.

Three astronauts are staying at the ISS – commander Oleg Kotov and engineers Soichi Noguchi and Timothy Creamer.

They have been working in orbit since December and are scheduled to leave in May.

Maksim Suraev has a blog on RT’s website, and hopefully he will be updating it after he returns to describe his experiences in space.

Also, this Thursday marks 45 years since the first-ever spacewalk when Soviet cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov spent around 12 minutes in open space 500 kilometers above the Earth.