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>> This is a replay of video shot from inside one
of the search and recovery helicopters that did
in fact make it down to the landing site.
There are a dozen
such helicopters comprising the search and recovery forces.
To the best of our knowledge,
only two of those helicopters actually landed,
and you're seeing a video replay
of the Soyuz having landed upright.
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>> And now we're looking at the first
of the crew members being extracted from the vehicle.
We believe that that is --
should be the Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy.
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>> Please be careful.
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>> Just put him here.
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>> And you're looking at Kevin Ford,
the Expedition 34 commander, who was the second crew member
to be extracted from the Soyuz vehicle, being bundled
up against the extreme frigid temperatures
on a Saturday morning at the landing site.
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>> And Evgeny Tarelkin now out.
All of the crew members have been extracted
from the Soyuz vehicle.
>> Care of the head.
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>> Slide down.
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>> Happy return, welcome back.
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>> Welcome back.
Give the flowers to the flight engineer.
Thank you.
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>> Happy return to earth.
This is our traditional hat [inaudible].
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>> Our chocolates from [inaudible].
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>> To remember our land, the land of [inaudible].
>> Thank you very much.
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>> Thank you very much.
>> Good job.
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>> Well Kevin, welcome back home.
First of all just let us know how you're feeling.
>> Kevin Ford: Well, I feel
like I've been off the planet for 145 days.
So gravity is really -- really feels strong right now.
Things feel heavy, even things you hold
in your hand feel really heavy.
But -- and a little dizziness you get,
because my vestibular system's not used
to having the gravity back here.
But otherwise I'm feeling pretty good.
>> So tell us, what was your first reaction when you found
out you got an extra day in space,
you guys couldn't come home as planned.
>> Kevin Ford: Well that was jubilation,
'cause it was a win-win situation.
When we started that day,
we knew we had a chance we might not come home,
because we had heard the weather was bad.
So I said, you know, an extra day in space is great.
A Soyuz ride today is great, so it's just a good thing.
And it was mostly free time for me, so it was really nice.
>> So you guys set a record for the amount of science you did
on board the Space Station.
You broke the record in terms of number of hours spent.
Talk about -- a little bit about what you guys worked on,
what are you going to remember about your expedition
and the science that you worked on?
>> Kevin Ford: Well on board I tell you,
a really pleasant surprise for me was to get
to see what's going on on board.
You know, I did it, but I didn't design it.
Scientists sent up procedures and the equipment,
and we would pull stuff out of lockers and do it.
And we just did a lot of really cool stuff from the fish
that went up and came down with us, the [inaudible] fish
for our osteoporosis study, to, you know, how fluids behave
in microgravity to these real magnetic fluids and stuff
that we got to experiment with.
And to get to see it in zero gravity is really cool,
so [inaudible].
>> Was it everything you expected
in terms of living on board?
You've been to Station before,
but you get to live there this time.
So is it what you expected?
>> Kevin Ford: Yeah.
I think, you know, it was really a pleasant surprise,
and really fun to do.
I slept well on board.
You know, you get used to a routine, and being on board
for a while you go through some evolutions.
For the first part of it it's like you're new to space,
and then you learn some tricks about, you know,
forgetting which way is up, and turning a wall into a floor,
and that sort of thing.
And after a while you don't even care where the walls
and floors are any more, you just live in there.
So it's really neat to spend some time there.
>> Well it's good to have you back.
>> Kevin Ford: Thank you.
It's great to be back.
It's good to be back.