Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2011, 6:57 AM ET (1157 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three ISS crewmembers landed safely early Tuesday in the wintry steppes of Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft landed at 9:26 pm EST Monday (0226 GMT, 8:26 am local time Tuesday), several hours after undocking from the station. The Soyuz carried American astronaut Mike Fossum, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, completing a 167-day mission. Three people, American Dan Burbank and Russians Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov, remain on the ISS, where they arrived just last week. Three new ISS crewmembers will be launched on December 21.

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