Soyuz craft lands safely in Kazakhstan @ 21.10.2007

just checked the google news about soyuz ….

soyuz selamat landing kat bumi!

but … err….. via ballistic landing? pekemendernyer tuh? peluru ballistic?

apa2pun, yahoooooo! & alhamdulillah 🙂

semua kesemua (3 crew) selamat termasuklah angkasawan malaysia 🙂

Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan

KOROLYOV (near Moscow.) Oct 21 (Interfax-AVN) – The Soyuz TMA-10 spaceship carrying cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, and the first Malaysian astronaut Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, an Interfax correspondent reported from Mission Control.

“The Soyuz spaceship’s landing has been reported by search and rescue groups,” a Mission Control spokesman said. sd

Oct. 21, 2007, 5:57AM
Soyuz craft lands safely in Kazakhstan

© 2007 The Associated Press

MOSCOW — A Soyuz craft veered off its designated course while heading for its landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan but safely brought two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia’s first space traveler back to Earth on Sunday, officials said.

The landing capsule carrying Russians Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, and Malaysian Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, deviated from its intended landing site after a technical problem during the descent.

But it landed safely and the crew was unharmed, said Russia’s Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin. Russian search and rescue teams quickly located the craft.