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RE: Expedition 14

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An American billionaire who paid $25 million for a 13-day trip to outer space returned to Earth on Saturday in a space capsule that also carried a cosmonaut and an American astronaut, making a soft landing on the Kazakh steppe.
The capsule carrying Charles Simonyi, a Hungarian-born software engineer who helped develop Microsoft Word and Excel, arrived after a more than three-hour return trip from the orbital station, a spokesman said at Mission Control outside Moscow, describing the touchdown as a "soft landing."

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A Russian spacecraft with two crew and a space tourist on board returns safely from the ISS.

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Billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi and two crew from the international space station (ISS) have safely returned to Earth.

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the trio touched down on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 16:31 (12:31 GMT).

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Recovery vehicle on the steppes of Kazakhstan

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Hatched closed and undocking

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April 21, Saturday

All times are Eastern U.S. time.

1:30 a.m. - Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant Hatch Closure Coverage and Replay of Farewells (Hatch closure scheduled at approximately 2:06 a.m.) - JSC (All Channels)
4:45 a.m. - Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant Undocking Coverage (undocking scheduled at 5:11 a.m.) - JSC (All Channels)
7:15 a.m. - Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant Deorbit Burn and Landing Coverage from Kazakhstan (deorbit burn scheduled at 7:42 a.m.; landing scheduled at 8:30 a.m.) - JSC (All Channels)
4:30 p.m. - Video File Feed of Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant Landing Site Video and Kazakhstan Reception - JSC (Public and Media Channels)
9:30 p.m. - Video File Feed of Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant Return to Chkalovsky Airfield and Star City, Russia - JSC (Public and Media Channels)

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The ISS Expedition 14 Crew, Michael Lopez-Alegria and Mikhail Tyurin, and "space tourist" Charles Simonyi are making their last preparations for their trip home.
The astronauts Soyuz capsule is scheduled to leave the station early tomorrow, 21 April, and to land northeast of Arkalyk, which is southeast of the usual landing site in Kazakhstan. The landing was delayed a day and moved farther south because wet ground at the initial site precluded helicopter operations there.

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The 14th crew of the ISS, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, along with Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, will land at 8:30 a.m. EDT Saturday, April 21 in Kazakhstan.

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Expeditions 14 and 15 crew members will discuss their missions during a news conference from the International Space Station at 4:30 p.m. CDT Tuesday, April 10, 2007.