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                        ISS Crew Returns Safely to Earth

   by VOA News

   Two Russians and an American are back on Earth after nearly six months
   aboard the International Space Station.

   A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Oleg Artemiev, Alexander Skvortsov and
   Steven Swanson parachuted safely onto the steppe of Kazakhstan early
   Thursday morning, several hours after ending a nearly six-month mission
   aboard the ISS. They have been replaced by a new three-person crew,
   including Russian cosmonaut Max Suraev, American Reid Wiseman and
   Germany's Alexander Gerst, a member of the European Space Agency.

   Another three-person crew is scheduled to arrive at the orbital outpost
   later this month. The crew will include Elena Serova, who will be only
   the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first since 1997.
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