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Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan

09:02 24/10/2008

MISSION CONTROL CENTER (Moscow Region), October 24 (RIA Novosti) - A Soyuz-TMA-12 space capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American space tourist landed in north-central Kazakhstan at 9.37 a.m. (03:37 GMT) on Friday.

Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, along with space tourist Richard Garriot, will be later taken to the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan by helicopter. They will then fly to Zvezdny Gorodok (Star City) in Russia's Moscow Region.

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