A Soyuz space capsule
carrying Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin and NASA
astronaut Joe Acaba landed on the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan at
10:53 p.m. EDT Sunday (0253 GMT Monday), where the local time was early
Monday morning.
NASA spokesman Rob Navias of the Johnson Space Center called the
touchdown a "bull's-eye landing." The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft landed
under a clear blue sky and touched down in a wheat field, with Russian
recovery crews swiftly extracting the three spaceflyers from the
capsule.
NASA spokesman Josh Byerly, who was onhand at the landing, said the
Soyuz crew was in good health and spirits, with Acaba — the sole
American on the crew — enjoying his return home.
"The second they pulled him out, he gave a big thumbs up and said 'It's
good to be home,'" Byerly said of Acaba in a NASA broadcast. Acaba was
all smiles after exiting the spacecraft. He and his Russian crewmates
signed their Soyuz spacecraft, which is destined for a Russian museum,
before heading off to planned medical checks.
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