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Soyuz crew returns to Earth after shuttle photo op


Soyuz crew returns to Earth after shuttle photo op Outgoing space station commander Dmitry Kondratyev, Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Catherine "Cady" Coleman undocked and returned to Earth Monday, pausing briefly to snap long-sought pictures of the station with a space shuttle attached before dropping out of orbit and landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 159-day voyage. Sailing 220 miles above eastern China, the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft undocked from the Russian Rassvet mini-research module at 5:35 p.m. EDT (GMT-4), backing straight away from the space station.    More



(Source: Space Flight Now - May 24)