Soyuz TMA-19 launched from Baikonur Site 1/5 on June 15, 2010 and docked with the International Space Station on June 17. The spacecraft carried Soyuz commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA flight engineers Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock to the station, where they joined Expedition 24 and later continued into Expedition 25. The mission also relocated Soyuz TMA-19 to support station docking operations. Yurchikhin, Walker, and Wheelock returned to Earth aboard the same spacecraft on November 26, 2010, landing north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.