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Three astronauts touch down after 6 months in space

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A three-man crew, including British astronaut Tim Peake, landed in the Kazakh Steppe on Saturday after completing a six-month mission at the International Space Station (ISS). Peake, the first British astronaut on the ISS, Russia’s Yury Malenchenko and NASA’s Tim Kopra parachuted down to Earth in their Soyuz capsule at 0915 GMT after spending 186 days in orbit. Video footage from the landing site, southeast of the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan, […]