Space station crew lands safely

Astronauts from Canada and Belgium and a Russian cosmonaut have landed safely in Kazakhstan after a six-month stint on the International Space Station, Russian Mission Control said today.

Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said the Russian Soyuz TMA-15 capsule carrying Canadian Bob Thirsk, Russian Roman Romanenko and Belgian Frank De Winne touched down without a hitch near the town of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan’s barren north.