spacetoday.net: ISS crew returns to Earth

ISS crew returns to Earth

Posted: Sun, Oct 24, 2004, 10:55 AM ET (1455 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a returning ISS crew safely landed early Sunday in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft made a rare nighttime landing on the Kazakh steppes at 8:36 pm EDT Saturday (0036 GMT Sunday), three and a half hours after undocking from the ISS. On board the spacecraft are the two members of the returning Expedition Nine crew, Gennady Padalka and Michael Fincke, who spent six months on the station. Also on the Soyuz was Yuri Shargin, a guest cosmonaut who arrived at the station a week earlier with the Expedition Ten crew on the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft.