Back on Earth

Russian space agency rescue team members carry U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz TMA-03M space capsule, outside of Kazakh. The Soyuz capsule, which carried U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Netherlands' astronaut Andre Kuipers safely returned to Earth July 1 after a half-year stint on the international space station, with a landing on the Kazakh steppe.

( MIKHAIL METZEL, AFP/Getty Images / July 1, 2012 )

Russian space agency rescue team members carry U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz TMA-03M space capsule, outside of Kazakh. The Soyuz capsule, which carried U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Netherlands' astronaut Andre Kuipers safely returned to Earth July 1 after a half-year stint on the international space station, with a landing on the Kazakh steppe.

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