Space tourist, Russia-US crew return to Earth

MOSCOW, Sep 29 (Reuters) 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 US astronaut Jeff Williams. Ansari is thought to have paid about 20 million dollars for 11 days in space.

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