Space capsule crew safe and well after touchdown

After landing in their capsule way off-course in an alarming end to their return from the international space station, the three-man Russian-American crew opened the hatch today and emerged in good health, officials at Russian Mission control said.

Russian spotters found the capsule north of the Aral Sea after a more than two-hour air search. After the announcement was made in Mission Control just outside Moscow, the room erupted in applause.