<i>Astronauts land safely</i>
Ground crew members helps US space tourist Richard Garriot shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz space capsule not far from the Kazakh town of Arkalyk, in northern Kazakhstan, some 300km from the capital Astana on Friday. Photo: AFP
A Soyuz capsule carrying an American and two Russians touched down on target in Kazakhstan on Friday after a descent from the international space station, safely delivering the first two men to follow their fathers into space.
The Soyuz TMA-12 capsule landed at 9:37 am local time, about 55 miles north of Arkalyk in north-central Kazakhstan, Russian Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin told The Associated Press.
Search and recovery crews buzzed in on Mi-8 helicopters and extracted Richard Garriott, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko from the capsule, which landed on its side on the brushy surface under a clear sky.
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