Soyuz departs Space Station, headed for Kazakhstan

Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut are tucked away safely into a Soyuz capsule, and heading home to Earth after successfully undocking from the International Space Station. This after the crew worked through technical problems that delayed their departure for a day. American astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson and Russia's Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko had been up there for a total of six months. Snip from AP:

Undocking had been thwarted by signaling errors in the onboard computer system and a malfunction with the opening hooks and latches on the space station side of the capsule.

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Image: NASA. "The Soyuz spacecraft undocked from the Space Station at 10:02 p.m. EDT with the three crew members aboard. A deorbit burn at 12:31 a.m. Saturday will put the Soyuz on track for a 1:21 a.m. landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan." More on the ISS mission at NASA.gov.