Space crew found alive after re-entry
The Americans Ken Bowersox and Donald Pettit and Russia's Nikolai Budarin had already had to extend a three-month stay on International Space Station to almost six after the loss of the American space shuttle Columbia in February.
When they were finally brought back to Earth in a Russian Soyuz module at around 2am, they were out of contact and so far off target they had to wait over two hours to be located by anxious rescuers scouring the Central Asian steppes in planes and helicopters.
