An American and two Russians landed early today in Kazakhstan after 5 months aboard the International Space Station. They returned in a Russian Soyuz capsule that parachuted down through a clear sky. Nasa reported that everything went well; the crewmen smiled and chatted as they were helped out of their spacecraft.
Nasa astronaut Steven Swanson and Russian crewmen Oleg Artemiev and Alexander Skvortsov flew to the orbiting outpost in March. Their departure leaves three men still up there: an American, Russian and German.
”We had a lot of fun,” Swanson said before heading home.
