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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample

Science Weekly Extra: Astronaut Richard Garriott

A space capsule carrying the first two men to follow their fathers into orbit has returned to Earth from the International Space Station.

Search and recovery crews in Kazakhstan pulled the American space tourist Richard Garriott, 47, and the Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko from the Soyuz module, which landed on its side on the brushy steppe of north-central Kazakhstan under a cold, clear sky.

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