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Penza cosmonaut Alexander Samokutjaev returned from the orbit to the Earth

09:23 | 16.09.2011 | Society

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Penza, 16 September 2011. PenzaNews. After several months of work on the ISS Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutjaev, and also an astronaut of NASA Ronald Garan returned to the Earth on Friday morning, September, 16th. According to Russian mass-media, spaceship "Souz TMA-21" landed successfully near the city Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

According to Rosaviation, the crew endured landing normally. Then they need a course of postflight rehabilitation in Moscow.

The press-service of Russian Space Department said: "Andrey Borisenko, Alexander Samokutjaev and Ronald Garana spent 164 days on orbita. They accepted two Russian space trucks "Progresses", the piloted ship "Conjunction TMA-02M" and two American ships of reusable use on the ISS. Russians and Americans have one extravehicular maneuver. Besides, Russian cosmonauts spent about 50 research experiments".

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