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A Russian investigation into what sent the Soyuz spacecraft badly off-course as it crashed back to earth Saturday found it sheer "luck" that the crew survived "whole and unharmed.""Everything could have ended much worse. The whole situation, you could say, was on the razor's edge," an expert close to the investigation was quoted by news agency Interfax as saying Tuesday.

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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has returned to Earth, but came down more than 400km away from its planned touchdown point, say Russian officials.
The crew are safe, but were subjected to severe G-forces during re-entry, said a spokesman for Mission Control according to AP news agency.

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A Russian Soyuz TMA-11 spaceship carrying the Expedition 16 crew has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS).
The automatic docking was scheduled for 6:52 p.m. Moscow time (14:52 GMT).

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A Russian spacecraft soared from the Kazakh steppe toward the international space station Wednesday, carrying a Malaysian, a Russian, and Peggy Whitson, the American who will become the first woman to command the orbital outpost.


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