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Soyuz spacecraft carrying two astronauts lands successfully

14:36 18/03/2010

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A Soyuz-TMA-16 space capsule carrying astronauts returning from the International Space Station (ISS) successfully landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

Russian Maxim Surayev and American Jeff Williams spent six months on board the orbital station.

Work at the ISS will be continued by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and the U.S.'s Timothy Creamer, until they are joined by Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko, and U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell, who are scheduled to depart for the ISS on a Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft on April 2.

MISSION CONTROL CENTER, March 18 (RIA Novosti)

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