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When they were about 12 kilometres from the station, the crew on the Soyuz capsule performed a successful de-orbit burn, slowing the craft down for its descent. They're travelling more than 20, kilometres an hour. When the capsule was about About one second prior to touchdown, two sets of three small engines on the bottom of the Soyuz capsule fired to slow its rate of descent and soften the landing. After the touchdown, ground crew helped Hadfield and his colleagues out of the Soyuz and put them in chairs so they can begin to re-adapt to gravity.

Former Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk, who spent six months on the space station in , described Hadfield's return to Earth as "a really dynamic event. Thirsk, who watched the landing at the Canadian Space Agency near Montreal, said "the real icing on the cake is the landing.

A helicopter was to take the astronauts to Karaganda, Kazakhstan for medical checkups. Romanenko will board a Russian aircraft for a flight to Star City, Russia. With their return to Earth, Hadfield and his colleagues will have spent days in space on their mission.

They drove through dried-up lake beds. Their car broke down, suffered a flat tire and even they had to scavenge for gas in an isolated, almost abandoned village. But, they made it to where they believed they could get the best glimpse of the Soyuz floating back to Earth. Bock admits they were worried they had the right spot and that any number of factors could have made them miss the landing. World Canada Local. Full Menu Search Menu.

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The returning station crew left behind three other astronauts to watch over the space station in their stead, but they won't be alone for long. NASA has relied on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to shuttle the space agency's astronauts to and from the space station since the end of the shuttle program in NASA officials eventually hope to use private crewed spaceships to bring people to and from the orbiting laboratory.