Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan

Three space station crew members — two short timers completing a 10-day flight and a veteran cosmonaut who has logged a world record 879 days aloft over five missions — undocked from the International Space Station and returned to Earth Friday, landing safely on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a problem-free flight. With veteran commander Gennady Padalka strapped into the descent module’s center seat, flanked on the left by European Space Agency flight engineer Andreas Mogensen and on the right by Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft separated from the aft port of the station’s Zvezda command module at 5:29 p.m. EDT (GMT-4). More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 12)