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Russian Soyuz capsule brings three station fliers back to Earth

Three departing station fliers strapped into a Soyuz ferry craft, fired the ship's braking rockets and plunged back to Earth early Sunday, landing in Kazakhstan to close out a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

Descending through a sunny sky under a red-and-white parachute, the Soyuz TMA-03M command module carrying outgoing Expedition 31 commander Oleg Kononenko, European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, and NASA flight engineer Donald Pettit settled to a jarring rocket-assisted touchdown near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 4:14 a.m. EDT (2:14 p.m. local time).

Russian recovery crews stationed nearby rushed to the spacecraft … Read more

Soyuz spacecraft brings three station fliers back to Earth

Strapped into a cramped Soyuz ferry craft, the outgoing space station commander and two Russian cosmonauts undocked from the International Space Station early Friday and plunged back to Earth to close out a five-and-a-half-month stay in space.

Descending through a clear blue sky under a large red-and-white parachute, the Soyuz TMA-22 descent module landed near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, at 7:45 a.m. EDT (GMT-4; 2:45 p.m. local time) after a 56-minute fall from orbit. Russian recovery forces and NASA support personnel stationed nearby quickly converged on the spacecraft to assist the station fliers as they began their readjustment … Read more