The other two crew members are Shannon Walker and Douglas H. Wheelock of the United States NASA and are designated flight engineers.

[3] The Soyuz spacecraft successfully deployed the solar arrays for power generation and the antennas for navigational and communication systems.

[12] Rollout to the launch pad began at 01:00 UTC on 13 June 2010, with the rocket departing the MIK propelled by a locomotive.

The Kurs docking systems aboard the Soyuz and the International Space Station were activated at 20:52 and 20:54 respectively.

[16] On 28 June 2010, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin along with NASA astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker boarded their Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft and undocked from Zvezda Service Module's aft port at 07:13 UTC.

The descent module landed on the central steppes of Kazakhstan at 04:46 UTC, four days earlier than originally planned.

After closing the hatchway between the Soyuz and the station at 22:14 UTC, they donned their Sokol spacesuits and continued with the power up operations.

About two and half hours later, at 03:55:12 UTC, the Soyuz spacecraft performed the deorbit maneuver which lasted for 4 minutes and 21 seconds, while it flew backwards over the south-central Atlantic Ocean on a north easterly trajectory towards Asia.

With the deorbit burn nominally accomplished, the recovery forces comprising 14 helicopters, 4 airplanes and 7 search and rescue vehicles[24] were dispatched to the landing zone.

[22] At an altitude of 140 kilometers, just above the first traces of the Earth's atmosphere, onboard computers commanded the separation of the three Soyuz TMA-19 modules.

[25] Three minutes after the separation, with the heat shield of the Descent Module pointing towards the direction of travel, the Soyuz capsule experienced the first traces of the atmosphere ("entry interface") at 04:23 UTC at an altitude of 120,000 m (390,000 ft) above the Earth.

Around 04:28 UTC, the flight path of the capsule crossed the Mediterranean, Turkey and the Black Sea before flying over southern Russia and into Kazakhstan.

During the same time, they were successful in contacting the crew via the fixed-wing aircraft that served as the central command for the search and recovery forces.

Wheelock and Walker boarded a NASA jet waiting for them in Kostanay for the trip back to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Yurchikhin headed for Star City – the home of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia.