"The crew endured the descent and the landing well, and is cheerful", a representative of the space rescue service told the Mission Control Centre in the Moscow Region.
The descent module of the Souyz TMA-3 space ship with spacemen on board landed in the pre-set area on the territory of Kazakhstan. The commander of the search group watched the module's descent from a helicopter and reported to the Mission Control Centre by radio that the module had landed normally 52 km north-east of Arkalyk populated area.
The eighth permanent crew of the ISS - US astronaut Michael Foale and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri - returned to Earth from a six-month-long space expedition. An astronaut from the visiting expedition - representative of the European Space Agency Andre Kuipers - came back from orbit together with them after a ten-day mission.
