Yuri Malenchenko News

Peake was aboard the International Space Station with two other Expedition 47 crew members, NASA's Tim Kopra and Russian Roscosmos's Yuri Malenchenko.

Expedition 47 crew members, Commander Tim Kopra of NASA, Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos on Friday have successfully departed from the International Space Station (ISS).

Commander Tim Kopra of NASA, Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos who are a part of Expedition 46 and 47 aboard the the International Space Station will make their way down back to the Earth today.

Once again, NASA has announced live coverage from the undocking process to their eventual landing in Kazakhstan on its website's live TV.

The duo worked outside for four hours and 45 minutes, finishing 45 minutes early.

 Two Russians are taking a spacewalk to install fresh experiments outside the International Space Station and gather old ones. Cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov stepped out on Wednesday.

According to NASA, veteran flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov will don their spacesuits and exit the station's Pirs airlock at approximately 8:10 a.m. EST Wednesday.

 Three new Expedition 46 astronauts joined the three residents to continue key research on space that advances NASA's journey to Mars.

A new Soyuz rocket successfully sent three Expedition-46 astronauts on the six-hour trip to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.

"We've been so busy focusing on this mission I forgot that Christmas is just a week away," Peake told reporters at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur today.