Space station crew return to Earth

Three astronauts landed safely in the frozen steppe of northern Kazakhstan on Tuesday after six months orbiting the world on the International Space Station.The Russian Soyuz space capsule, carrying Belgian Frank de Winne, Canadian Robert Thirsk and Russian Roman Romanenko, landed as planned at 10:17 am Moscow time (0717 GMT) about 85 km (50 miles) north of the town of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan.The crew will fly back to Russia's space training centre in Star City, outside Moscow, on Tuesday for a reunion with their families and for training on how to deal with gravity after six months on the space station, NASA said.