Space station crew home after 123 days

 
17 September 2012

Three astronauts returned to earth today after 123 days on the International Space Station.

Their Russian Soyuz capsule made a successful landing in northern Kazakhstan, near the town of Arkalyk. Nasa’s Joe Acaba, right, who was with Russians Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, gave a thumbs-up sign and said: “It’s good to be home.”

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