Space crew back safe, off-course
From Times Wire Reports
A Russian space capsule carrying South Korea’s first astronaut landed in northern Kazakhstan, 260 miles off its mark, Russian officials said.
Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said the condition of the crew, South Korean bioengineer Yi So-yeon, American astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, was satisfactory.
The Russian TMA-11 craft touched down at 1:51 a.m. PDT. It took search helicopters 25 minutes to find the capsule and determine the crew was unharmed.
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