<p>Two Expedition 51 crew members departed</a> the International Space Station and landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday, June 2.</p><p>Expedition 51 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) departed on the Soyuz spacecraft at 6:50 am EDT. Novitskiy and Pesquet spent a total of 196 days in space during which they conducted research in biology, biotechnology and Earth Science, aboard the ISS, according to NASA</a>.</p><p>In this video, Novitskiy and Pesquet say goodbye to the crew remaining onboard the station before boarding the Soyuz spacecraft and undocking.</p><br />
