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MOSCOW (AFP) – A Soyuz expanse capsulise carrying an Italian, a Slavonic and an American back from the International Space Station has landed safely in Kazakhstan, Slavonic assignment curb said Tuesday.

"They hit landed and all is well. They landed at roughly 0627 (0227 GMT)," a spokesman for assignment curb told AFP.

Russia's Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, and NASA's Catherine Coleman landed in the precise positioning to the easterly of the municipality of Jezkazgan after outlay 159 life in space, assignment curb said in a statement.

"All the operations in leaving itinerary and construction went according to plan," assignment curb said. "The astronauts feel well."

Television footage showed the astronauts movement enwrapped in blankets and wearing sunglasses after aborning from the Soyuz-TMA capsulise onto the sunny steppe.

Coleman was shown grinning and chatting to a cosmonaut feat miss while holding a nosegay of flowers, while Nespoli gave a thumbs up as he was carried in a chair to the medical shelter presently after the landing.

Kondratyev, Coleman and Nespoli blamed off on Dec 15 and worked on the ISS under US man histrion Kelly until his feat in March, when Kondratyev took over as commander.

On Apr 7, they were connected on the ISS by Slavonic cosmonauts herb Samokutyaev and Andrei Borisenko and US astronaut Ronald Garan. In May six US astronauts flew in on the Endeavour expanse shuttle, led by Mark Kelly.

Kondratyev prefabricated digit expanse walks during his time on the ISS and also kept a blog. It was his prototypal activate to expanse after inactivity 13 years. His teammates were more experienced, with Nespoli having prefabricated digit previous grace and Coleman two.

Coleman took her channel into itinerary and performed for the other astronauts. She also played a long-distance duet with Ian Anderson, the founder of sway band Jethro Tull, a recording of which NASA posted on its website.

Russia's Soyuz foxiness will later this year become the sole means for attractive humans to the ISS when NASA takes its shuttles out of service, leaving the United States reliant on the more basic Slavonic technology.

NASA said last hebdomad it is aiming to start the Atlantis shuttle on July 8 with quaternary US astronauts on commission in the last-ever grace of the 30-year-old American shuttle programme.

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