ALMATY (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz space capsule with three astronauts on board landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday, NASA television reported.
U.S. astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev, who had manned the International Space Station since April, landed on the Kazakh steppe at 0959 local time (0359 GMT).
“We now can confirm that Soyuz TMA-21 has landed,” an announcer on NASA television said. He later described a “bullseye landing” 92 miles southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan.
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