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Soyuz TMA-17M crew lands on Earth after 141 days on space station [i]Three space station crewmembers made a rare nighttime return to Earth on Friday (Dec. 11), safely landing in Kazakhstan after 141 days in orbit. Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) touched down at about 8:12 a.m. EST (1312 GMT or 7:12 p.m. local time) on board their Russian Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft. The parachute- and thruster-assisted landing put the trio down northeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan about two hours after sunset. The return marked only the sixth time that a Soyuz crew came home from the International Space Station at night, after more than 40 such landings.[/i]
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