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JSC2004-E-21253 (30 April 2004) --- Overturned soil can be seen where the Soyuz TMA-3 capsule thrusters fired moments before landing. Astronaut C. Michael Foale (out of frame), Expedition 8 commander and NASA ISS science officer; cosmonaut Alexander Y. Kaleri (out of frame), Soyuz flight engineer representing Russia’s Federal Space Agency; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andre Kuipers (out of frame) of the Netherlands, successfully landed in north central Kazakhstan on April 30, 2004, in their Soyuz TMA-3 capsule. Foale and Kaleri completed 195 days in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS), while Kuipers returned after an 11-day research mission as part of a commercial agreement between ESA and Russia’s Federal Space Agency. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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