Moscow: A Russian spacecraft with three crewmembers on board returned to earth Sunday.
The Soyuz spacecraft landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russia`s mission control centre said. The crew included Russian astronaut Oleg Kononenko, American Donald Pettit and Dutch Andre Kuipers.
It undocked from the International Space Station at 0448 GMT and landed on earth at 0815 GMT, Xinhua reported. The trio spent 193 days in space.
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