MOSCOW: Three astronauts touched down on the snowy steppes of Kazakhstan yesterday in a pre-dawn landing aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after spending over four months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Russia’s Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams of the US and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan landed as scheduled just before 0200 GMT, the Russian Space Flight Control Center announced as the message “Landing Accomplished” was flashed on a giant screen.
The successful landing came after fears it could be postponed after workers in the Moscow region on Wednesday accidentally cut through a communication cable.
ISS crew return to Earth in Russian capsule
