Russian Soyuz Capsule Returns to Earth

World | October 24, 2004, Sunday // 00:00
Russian Soyuz Capsule Returns to Earth Current residents of the space station include Michael Fincke and Gennady Padalka (from left in the front row.)Photo by CNN

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a US-Russian crew back to Earth following six months at the International Space Station hurtled through the Earth's atmosphere and landed in Kazakhstan Saturday night. The Soyuz TMA-4 carrying Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and American partner Mike Fincke touched down beneath a parachute at the targeted landing site in predawn darkness. The Soyuz had undocked from the space station some three hours earlier and made two orbits around Earth.

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