Reuters
A Soyuz capsule bringing back three astronauts from the International Space Station, including the first representative of the Government British, landed safely on Saturday with a parachute in the steppe near the town of Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan .
the crew, which included a Russian and an American also British Tim Peake , left the space station three hours before, after spending half a year in orbit.
the capsule landed side, something common in the steep and windy steppe, after a parachute descent that lasted for about 14 minutes. A team of search and rescue quickly extracted three crew capsule
Peake smiled when examined by flight surgeons and told reporters he was enjoying “the aromas of the Earth” and fresh air, a sharp contrast to the artificial atmosphere and high temperature inside the capsule.
beside him was the commander Yuri Malenchenko , who quickly put goggles to protect your eyes from the midday sun, and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra .
Peake, a former Army major who served 44 years aboard the station, was on a mission of the European Space Agency and became the first astronaut to carry the British flag on his arm.
the first British space was Helen Sharman, who flew on a Soviet aircraft for eight days in 1991.
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