Moscow - MICOM: the Russian Soyuz spacecraft has successfully landed in Kazakhstan, with three crew members, the path of the International Space Station (ISS).
U.S. Astronaut Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa of Japan and Russia, Sergei Volkov spent 165 days on the ISS.
Soyuz is the only spacecraft to reach the International Space Station, after the United States at the end of the manned space program earlier this year.
The capsule-shaped plane landed in Kazakhstan on the snow-covered runway at 8:27 pm local time Tuesday.
Television footage showed the three-man crew, smiled and covered with blankets.
U.S. space agency NASA has said the plane landed in windy conditions.
This trip is the first time when a rocket exploded shortly after launch in August last year, and delayed all flights into space in three months.
Replacing them - two Russians and one American - arrived at the ISS on Soyuz Wednesday. Soyuz rocket launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan to bring them on Monday.
NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts and Burbank Shkaplerov Anton and Anatoly Ivanishin will be at the space station until next March. (BBC/OL-3)
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