Kononenko returned to Earth from the ISS on July 1, along with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit and astronaut of the European Space Agency Andre Cowpers. “We have very good photo equipment in the Russian segment, and you can get pretty pretty pictures,” the Russian cosmonaut emphasized. According to Kononenko, during the expedition there were no problems inside the ISS international crew.
Cosmonauts and astronauts helped each other to carry out experiments, and in their free time they went in for sports on power simulators and photographed the Earth from space.