Space station trio gets down to Earth in Russian capsule After half a year living on the International Space Station, three astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday aboard a Russian-built space capsule. The Soyuz spacecraft landed in the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan at 4:14 a.m. ET, returning NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers to their home planet. Read the complete story.
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Space station trio gets down to Earth in Russian capsule

After half a year living on the International Space Station, three astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday aboard a Russian-built space capsule.

The Soyuz spacecraft landed in the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan at 4:14 a.m. ET, returning NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers to their home planet.

Read the complete story.

Source: MSNBC

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