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The capsule has safely landed

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Expedition 21 commander Frank De Winne of the European Space Agency, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk will finish their mission and return to Earth tonight aboard the Soyuz TMA-15 craft currently docked to the International space station's Zarya module.
The Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft will undock at 03:56 GMT Tuesday and land at 07:16 GMT, Tuesday in Kazakhstan.

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Expedition 21 crew docked at the International Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-16 has successfully docked to the aft end of the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station at 8:35 GMT Friday.

Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev will relieve the onboard Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt with their Canadian tourist, Guy Laliberté, who will return to Earth in the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft at 01:05 GMT on the 11th October.
They are scheduled to land in Kazakhstan three and a half hours later.

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Soyuz TMA-16 is scheduled to dock to the SM aft port of the International Space Station, at 08:37 GMT (2:37pm Moscow DMT time) on the 2nd October, 2009.

ISS Orbit
Period: 91.46 min.
Inclination: 51.64 deg
Apogee:  351.9 km
Perigee: 340.1 km
Mean altitude: 346.0 km
Orbits per 24-hr. day:  15.74
Mean altitude loss in the last 24 hours: 87 m
Revolutions since FGB/Zarya launch (Nov. 98):  62254


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