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The spacecraft brought back Randy Bresnik from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sergey Ryazanskiy from Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Italy's Paolo Nespoli with the European Space Agency. The capsule landed in the windswept and snow-covered steppe in Kazakhstan's central Karaganda region at 2.37 pm (0837 GMT).
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Smiling Ryazanskiy was the first to emerge from the capsule's hatch, assisted by rescue workers. The trio's departure has reduced to just three the crew of the ISS, a $100 billion lab that flies about 400 km above Earth. On December 17, NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Norishege Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, also in Kazakhstan, to join the ISS crew.
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