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Astronauts return to Earth after ISS mission

Three astronauts returned back to Earth on Tuesday aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after a half-year mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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Three astronauts returned back to Earth on Tuesday aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after a half-year mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), mission control in Moscow said.

Canadian Chris Hadfield, who became a global celebrity during his mission through his Twitter microblog, landed in the Kazakh steppe along with American Tom Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko, mission control said.


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