>> Everything's fine?
Yeah. Hello.
Coming over there.
[ background conversation ]
Cosmonauts and astronauts, first of all,
we would like to greet you here on Earth in Kazakhastan
on our multicultural land at the international level.
And we would like to wish you good health and wish you,
from Kazakhstan, and to give you, from Kazakhstan,
these flowers from us to you.
We wish you good spirits, good health, good health,
and I hope we are going to meet again
and wish you all the best here on Earth.
This land is very welcoming.
And we are ready to greet you,
even when you're coming not from space.
Have a look at our beautiful ladies.
That's what they have prepared for you, our national costume,
and some leaflets, some books about --
some candy from Kostanay so that your life is just as sweet
as the candy and chocolate.
Dear friends, dear cosmonauts, dear astronauts, and I,
as the representative of our aviation side department,
would like to present you with these traditional matryoshkas
from the Russian Federation from Russian Aviation,
and each of them has your names on it.
Thank you, thank you.
And where is the Japanese delegation?
And another one.
>> So you just tell us how you're feeling now
that you're home.
>> Well, I'm feeling great to be back on Earth but feeling,
of course, after coming back from space for a little while,
you feel a little woozy, so I'm a little tired.
It was a long day, and feeling not my 100 percent,
but pretty good.
>> Okay. Let's talk about what you guys did on the expedition.
You had an incredibly busy time.
You had a lot of vehicles coming up there.
You also had three space walks, which were quite memorable.
Talk about that.
>> So, yeah, it was pretty busy up there.
It was sort of one thing after another,
and people asked how we were going to manage,
and I think we just focused on one event,
and then led to the next event.
So it was exciting.
There wasn't a lot of downtime,
and whenever we did have any downtime, we got to do a lot
of good science, and that's what the --
the Space Station is now in the utilization phase.
So it was really rewarding.
It was one thing, like I said, after another,
but it was all a lot of fun, and I can't say enough
about the crew that I was with.
They were great, and we all had, made it a lot of fun together.
>> So when you look back at your expedition, what's going
to be the main thing that you remember about it?
>> Gosh, there's just too many things to pick.
It's hard to pick out one.
The space walks were, of course, incredible, you know,
started off thinking it was going to be a bolt replacement,
essentially, and it grew into a couple more after that.
And particularly, the radiator change-out was a little bit
of a challenge, just because we had never practiced that before,
but it was, it went real well.
So I guess the space walks were probably the highlight,
but you know, close second, I think, is just spending time
up there with that crew.
>> So are you looking forward
to getting back home and seeing your dog?
>> Oh, yeah.
I've got pictures of him on his trip to Houston.
He was in an airplane with my sister and my dad,
so I think he had a little traumatic day getting
to Houston, and I'll have a little traumatic day getting
to Houston, but we'll be happy together in our reunion.
>> Welcome back.
>> Thank you.