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Space station crew return to Earth

Tue Dec 1, 2009 2:18am EST

KOROLYOV, Russia, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three astronauts from the International Space Station landed in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.

The capsule -- carrying Belgian Frank de Winne, Canadian Robert Thirsk and Russian Roman Romanenko -- landed in the vast steppe of northern Kazakhstan as planned, according to an official at Mission Control in Korolyov outside Moscow. (Reporting by Conor Sweeney; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge) ((conor.sweeney@reuters.com; +7 495 775 1242; Reuters Messaging: conor.sweeney.reuters.com@reuters.net))


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