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Soyuz spacecraft returns to Earth with the International Space Station astronauts (VIDEO)

Arkalyk, Kazakhstan - "Fresh air, very good!", the first words by Sunita Williams

The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft carrying Expedition 33 commander Suni Williams and flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan northeast of the remote town of Arkalyk at 7:56 am on Monday 19 November 2012, Kazakhstan time (1:56 am GMT). A Russian recovery team and NASA personnel reached the landing site by helicopter shortly afterward to assist the crew and...

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Rome, Italy, 11/19/2012 16:41
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