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Space tourist came back on Earth.. / October 12, 2009 /

The descent vehicle of Soyuz TMA-14, carrying a space tourist Guy Laliberté, successfully landed in Kazakhstan.

Landing took place in a given area, a hundred kilometers from the Kazakh town of Arkalyk. «All astronauts are feeling normal», — noted in the Mission Control Center. In the near future astronauts evacuated from the landing area by helicopters, and then delivered to Moscow.

Apart Laliberté, founder of the legendary Cirque du Soleil, wich has spent on the International Space Station 11 days, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Barratt returned to Earth. The latters was on the ISS about 198 days in total.

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