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            Three Astronauts Return from International Space Station

   by VOA News

   Three astronauts have returned safely to Earth from the
   [1]International Space Station.
   U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford and his Russian counterparts Oleg Novitskiy
   and Evgeny Tarelkin landed safely Saturday morning in a Russian Soyuz
   capsule on the snow-covered steppes of Kazakhstan.
   The three men had spent 144 days on the space station.
   Their return, originally scheduled for Friday, was delayed a day
   because of poor weather conditions in the landing area.
   Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is now at the helm of the remaining
   3-member ISS crew.
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References

   1. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition34/e34_undock.html
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