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Three astronauts returned to Earth today as the Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan with an “almost bull’s-eye landing.” The astronauts—one American, Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, and two Russians, Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko—had been aboard the International Space Station for six months, and their homecoming was delayed by problems undocking the capsule. NASA said the spacecraft landed vertically and at its exact target spot in a remote part of the country, near the village of Arkalyk. Once pulled out of the capsule, the astronauts were immediately dumped into reclining chairs to help their bodies readjust to gravity. Caldwell-Dyson looked “weary but joyous.”