Astronauts land home safely from ISS
Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, US astronaut Leroy Chiao, and Italy's Roberto Vittori came back to Earth aboard a Soyuz spacecraft early yesterday after completing a mission on the orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
The Soyuz capsule made a soft landing in darkness near the town of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan at 02:08 am Moscow time (2208 GMT Sunday), mission control officials told Russian news agencies.
"Everything went according to plan," an official told the ITAR-TASS news agency. The head of the welcoming team, General Vladimir Popov, told the agency that the astronauts were all in good health, although the landing had been difficult due to bad weather and darkness.
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