ISS Crew Returns in Soyuz Capsule

physicsnerd writes "According to CNN the Soyuz capsule from the International Space Station has landed in Kazakhstan. This is the first time US Astronauts have ever landed outside of the US."

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Your dirty communist seats are not good enough

[brejc8]

Because landing in a Soyuz is generally bumpier than in a shuttle, Ken Bowersox, Don Pettit and cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin were seated in the Soyuz on custom-built recliners designed to fit their bodies, NASA said.

This is fantastic. I bet the astronauts were complaining about everything.
My chair is too hard, The in flight meal is too dry, Nikolai kept kicking my seat. You wouldn't get this kind of service on a good old Shuttle.

Re:Always Landed in US?

[IroNick]

Yes, and some even say the landed on the Moon... ?

Re:First to land outside the US?

[Anonymous Coward]

Tito was just cargo.

Re:outside the US ?

[russellh]

I thought the moon people landed in the middle of the atlantic, does the US own that now ?.

isn't that what the word "international" means?

Re:Always Landed in US?

[(H)elix1]

The word 'landed' is the key. As far as I know, all the US manned space flights before the shuttle program splashed into ocean on return. Whether you call it landing, is up to you.

If it is anything like the aviation biz, anything you can walk away from counts...

Re:Always Landed in US?

[jeff4747]

So unless Jesus was in the Apollo progoram, splashdowns wouldn't count.