Expedition 49 Departs from the ISS.

After saying farewell to the crew staying on the International Space Station and climbing into their Soyuz spacecraft on Oct. 29, Expedition 49 Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, undocked from the orbital outpost, to begin their return trip to Earth. Ivanishin, Rubins and Onishi spent 115 days in space and 113 days aboard the orbital laboratory.