British astronaut Tim Peake
THE Soyuz space capsule carrying British astronaut Tim Peake and two crew mates back to Earth from the International Space Station has landed in Kazakhstan.
Their journey began with a four minute 37 second rocket motor blast - the "deorbit burn" - that set the spacecraft on track for re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
The tiny Soyuz capsule carrying Major Peake and his two crew mates, American Nasa astronaut Colonel Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, parachuted down on to the vast flat scrubland of the Kazakhstan steppe.
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