The Soyuz TMA-12 capsule lays on its side on the Kazakh steppe after it landed on Oct. 24, 2008 with cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, Expedition 17 commander and flight engineer, respectively; and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, ending a six-month mission for Volkov and Kononenko on the International Space Station and 12 days in space for Garriott under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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