Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan
09:16, 14 May 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Three ISS crew members have successfully returned to Earth on board a Soyuz spacecraft that landed on the Kazakhstan steppe, ITAR-TASS reported.
The landing capsule of Soyuz TMA-11M made a touchdown in the planned area and the rescue operation didn't take long, featuring 12 helicopters and three planes, as well as six rescue vehicles, the Russia's Mission Control Center said. "The space capsule landed at 05:58 MSK in the planned landing area, about 147 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan", said the MCC. Russian Mikhail Tyurin, American Richard Mastracchio and Japanese Koichi Wakata who were aboard the Soyuz feel good. Currently Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev and American Steven Swanson are on the International Space Station.