ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will return to Earth on June 11.

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will return to Earth on 11 June, along with NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov, having spent 200 days in space on the International Space Station. The three astronauts will close the hatch to their Soyuz spacecraft at around 06:55 GMT. Once they leave the Station their return flight will take just over 200 minutes. Their expected landing time in the Kazakh steppe is 13:54 GMT. Samantha has set a new duration record for a single mission for ESA astronauts, Italian astronauts and all female astronauts. NASA astronaut Sunita Williams spent 195 days spent in space in 2007; Samantha’s Futura mission will end up beating that stay by five days. Follow Samantha’s journey first hand with her personal logbook and image galleries via http://samanthacristoforetti.esa.int.

Samantha, Terry and Anton