Guest Glenn Posted September 29, 2006 Posted September 29, 2006 Source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20 ... 02,00.html A RUSSIAN Soyuz capsule with Iranian-born space tourist Anousheh Ansari on board bumped down safely in the Kazakh steppe at dawn today."They've completed the landing," a mission control official in Moscow said after the small Soyuz TMA-8 capsule, charred black from re-entry into the atmosphere, landed in northern Kazakhstan. The capsule, returning from the International Space Station, was also carrying Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams. Ms Ansari is thought to have paid about $20 million for 11 days in space.
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