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"An ideal landing' of Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan · 2008-10-24 17:22
A Soyuz-TMA-12 space capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American space tourist landed in north-central Kazakhstan on Friday.
Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, along with the U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott, safely returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).
"The landing was carried out right on schedule. I can not recall such an ideal landing as this one. All the cosmonauts are in great shape," Russia’s Space Agency head, Anatoly Perminov said.
"This mission was very successful. The crew conducted extensive work on docking the Japanese module Kibo to the ISS, carried out an unscheduled spacewalk, and accomplished a number of other tasks," he added.
Richard Garriott, the sixth space tourist to travel to the ISS, conducted a variety of scientific experiments during his 10-day stay on the orbiting station.
Volkov and Garriott became the first children of astronauts to meet in space. The Russian’s father, Alexander, was orbiting the Earth when the U.S.S.R. collapsed in 1991, while Owen Garriott flew a mission to the U.S. space station Skylab in 1973.
Both fathers greeted their sons at the landing site.
The astronauts and space tourist were taken to the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan by helicopter. They will then fly to Zvezdny Gorodok in Russia’s Moscow Region, RIA Novosti reports.
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