Soyuz Spacecraft Brings US-Russian Space Station Crew Back To Earth

Soyuz Spacecraft Brings Crew Back To Earth
FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 file photo the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-07M space ship blasts off from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Russian Space Agency says it will send a spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launch pad in the countrys Far East. Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, the moon-bound spacecraft would be launched from Russias new Vostochny cosmodrome. President Putin has vowed to invest $1 billion in building this launch pad in the Amur Region not far from the Chinese border. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, file)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 file photo the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-07M space ship blasts off from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Russian Space Agency says it will send a spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launch pad in the countrys Far East. Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, the moon-bound spacecraft would be launched from Russias new Vostochny cosmodrome. President Putin has vowed to invest $1 billion in building this launch pad in the Amur Region not far from the Chinese border. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, file)

A Soyuz spacecraft brought an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts back to Earth on Friday after nearly five months of duty aboard the International Space Station.

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