Soyuz TMA-17 has landed in Kazakhstan.

The operation was in normal mode. Astronaut — Russian Oleg Kotov, the Japanese congress Noguchi and American Timothy Creamer — feel good. It is noted that after returning to earth Kotov, a former commander of the ISS, its powers passed to Alexander Skvortsov.

As Interfax reports with reference to the representative of PMU, usually astronauts, returning from the ISS, sit to the north-east of the town of Arkalyk. The decision to change the usual place of landing was made at the request of the Kazakh authorities, who feared for the safety of the area sown in Arkalyk fields.

According to the MCC, it happens that because of the engines of spaceships case of fire.

Kotov, Noguchi and Creamer launched to the ISS in December 2009. During his time at the station, the crew met the three shuttle and two cargo spacecraft Progress M ", and also carried redocking Soyuz TMA-17.