Return to Earth: An Astronaut's View of Coming Home

Leroy Chiao served as a NASA astronaut from 1990 to 2005. During his 15-year career, he flew four missions into space, three times on space shuttles and once as the co-pilot of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station. You can read more of Chiao's Expert Voices Op-Eds and film reviews on his Space.com landing page.