<p>Nasa astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyayev landed some 150 kilometres southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan after 164 days in space.<br /><br />Repeated calls to the Soyuz TMA-21 capsule from Mission Control in Korolyov, outside Moscow, went unanswered for several minutes, well after the craft had de-orbited. <br />Communication was eventually established between the crew and an Antonov fixed-winged aircraft circling the landing site.<br /><br />The landing was smooth in the area planned seconds before the expected arrival time.<br />Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Nasa’s Michael Fossum, and Satoshi Furukawa of Japan remain on board the space station and are due to return on November 22.</p>
<p>Nasa astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyayev landed some 150 kilometres southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan after 164 days in space.<br /><br />Repeated calls to the Soyuz TMA-21 capsule from Mission Control in Korolyov, outside Moscow, went unanswered for several minutes, well after the craft had de-orbited. <br />Communication was eventually established between the crew and an Antonov fixed-winged aircraft circling the landing site.<br /><br />The landing was smooth in the area planned seconds before the expected arrival time.<br />Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, Nasa’s Michael Fossum, and Satoshi Furukawa of Japan remain on board the space station and are due to return on November 22.</p>