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, Kazakhstan, May 3 (UPI) -- After five and a half months in space, two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth safely Saturday night in Kazakhstan.
NASA officials said confirmation was received that the crew was in communication after touchdown in their Soyuz capsule. Minutes earlier the capsule's array of parachutes deployed successfully, slowing the rate of descent. Finally retro rockets fired moments before touchdown.
Mission Commander Nikolai Budarin and his American colleagues with whom he shared the space capsule since November were to be picked up by helicopters from their Central Asia landing spot.
Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox were the first Americans to use a Soyuz capsule to land, forced to do without the U.S. space shuttle since the Columbia was ripped apart on its descent, triggering a massive investigation of the shuttle's systems.
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