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Russian mission control centre says:
Soyuz capsule lands back on Earth
RUSSIA: A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Canadian circus tycoon Guy
Laliberte and two astronauts on Sunday landed back on Earth in
Kazakhstan, the Russian mission control centre said.
The capsule, also carrying Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and US
astronaut Michael Barratt, landed in Kazakhstan's steppe at 0431 GMT
after travelling from the International Space Station (ISS).
"The team took the landing quite well, they are feeling fine," the
space official commented as quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency.
Laliberte is the billionaire founder of the popular Cirque du Soleil
and the seventh person in history to spend millions of dollars from a
personal fortune to fly into space.
The Canadian, who arrived at the ISS on October 2, could be the last
space tourist for some time as seats will be limited aboard the Soyuz
once NASA takes its long-serving shuttles out of service from 2010. The
Cirque du Soleil, which Laliberte founded in 1984, fuses acrobatics with
music and has made him the world's 261st richest man with a fortune of
2.5 billion dollars, according to Forbes magazine.
Moscow, Monday, AFP |
